Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Regulations 2014


Tasmanian Crest
Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Regulations 2014

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Act 2013 .

3 February 2014

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

D. J. O'BYRNE

Minister for Infrastructure

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Regulations 2014 .

2.   Commencement

(1)  Except as provided by this regulation, these regulations take effect on the day on which section 4 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Act 2013 commences.
(2)  Subdivision 4 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 takes effect on the day on which section 31 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Act 2013 commences.

3.   Interpretation

In these regulations –
Act means the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) Act 2013 ;
Heavy Vehicle (Mass Dimension and Loading) Regulation means the Heavy Vehicle (Mass Dimension and Loading) National Regulation, as made under the Heavy Vehicle National Law and applied in this jurisdiction by section 5 of the Act.

4.   Modification of application of Heavy Vehicle (Vehicle Standards) Regulations

(1)  In this regulation –
Heavy Vehicle (Vehicle Standards) means the Heavy Vehicle (Vehicle Standards) National Regulation, as made under the Heavy Vehicle National Law and applied in this jurisdiction by section 5 of the Act;
specified heavy vehicle means a heavy vehicle that, immediately before the commencement day, was registered under the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999 or a corresponding law.
(2)  Division 16 of Part 6 of Schedule 2 to the Heavy Vehicle (Vehicle Standards) does not apply to buses operating in this jurisdiction.
(3)  [Regulation 4 Subregulation (3) omitted by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(4)  Regulation 99(1) of the Heavy Vehicle (Vehicle Standards) does not apply in this jurisdiction to –
(a) a specified heavy vehicle built with an exhaust system having an outlet that –
(i) is mounted at the front of the vehicle; and
(ii) extends to the edge of the vehicle’s bodywork; or
(b) a specified heavy vehicle, such as a tractor, built with an exhaust system having an outlet that is –
(i) mounted vertically at the front of the vehicle; and
(ii) higher than the driver seated on the vehicle.

5.   

[Regulation 5 Rescinded by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019]

6.   Determination of wheel, single axle, axle group and aggregate axle loads

(1)  An authorised officer may determine the wheel load, single axle load, axle group load or aggregate axle load of a heavy vehicle –
(a) by causing to be placed on a weighbridge –
(i) any wheel separately; or
(ii) all the wheels on any single axle; or
(iii) all the wheels on any axle group; or
(iv) all the wheels on the vehicle; or
(b) by causing to be placed on a portable weighing device or devices –
(i) any wheel separately; or
(ii) the outer wheels on any single axle; or
(iii) the outer wheels on each axle of any axle group; or
(iv) the outer wheels on each axle of the vehicle.
(2)  A load, or the sum of any loads, determined under subregulation (1) is the wheel load, single axle load, axle group load or aggregate axle load, as the case may be, of the vehicle to which it relates, whether or not any wheel of the vehicle in relation to any other wheel of the vehicle was, at the time of determination, in alignment of the same horizontal plane, unless the divergence from that alignment exceeds 150 millimetres.
(3)  The aggregate axle load of a vehicle may be determined by adding together the axle loads of all the axles.

7.   

[Regulation 7 Rescinded by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019]

8.   Infringement notice offences

For the purposes of section 591 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania), a prescribed offence is an offence against a provision of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) or the national regulations specified in column 2 of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 .

9.   Transitional permit

[Regulation 9 Inserted by S.R. 2014, No. 125, Applied:03 Dec 2014]
(1)  In this regulation –
vehicle operations permit means a permit under Division 3 of Part 6 of the Vehicle and Traffic (Vehicle Operations) Regulations 2001 that –
(a) on the commencement day, was taken under section 748 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) to have been made under that Law; and
(b) has an expiry date between 31 December 2014 and 31 August 2015 (inclusive).
(2)  The holder of a vehicle operations permit (the original permit) is taken, on the expiry of that permit, to have been issued with a mass or dimension exemption (permit) under section 122 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania) –
(a) for the period commencing on the expiry of the original permit and ending on 31 December 2015; and
(b) subject to the same terms and conditions as those that applied to the original permit immediately before the expiry of that permit.
(3)  For the purposes of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania), the document issued to the person under regulation 49 of the Vehicle and Traffic (Vehicle Operations) Regulations 2001 is taken to be the document given to that person under section 127 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania).
SCHEDULE 1 - Infringement Notice Offences

Regulation 8

PART 1 - Interpretation
1.   In this Schedule –
[Part 1 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2018, No. 6, Applied:31 Jan 2018] HVFM means the Heavy Vehicle (Fatigue Management) National Regulation , as made under the Heavy Vehicle National Law and applied in this jurisdiction by section 5 of the Act;
HVNL means the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania);
MDL means the Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) Regulation.
2.   A reference in Part 2 of this Schedule to an Act or to a regulation, followed immediately by a number, is a reference to the provision of that Act or regulation that is so numbered.
PART 2 - Offences
Division 1 - Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania)
Subdivision 1 - Vehicle operations – standards and safety
[Subdivision 1 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2016, No. 2, Applied:06 Feb 2015]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

1. 

HVNL 60(1)

2. 

HVNL 79(2)

3. 

HVNL 81(1)

4. 

HVNL 81(2)

5. 

HVNL 81(3)

6. 

HVNL 82(2)

7. 

HVNL 82(3)

8. 

HVNL 83(1)

9. 

HVNL 83(2)

10. 

HVNL 83(3)

11. 

HVNL 85(1)

12. 

HVNL 85(2)

13. 

HVNL 86(2)

13A. 

HVNL 87A(1)

14. 

HVNL 89(1)

15. 

HVNL 90(1)

16. 

HVNL 90(2)

17. 

HVNL 90(3)

18. 

HVNL 92(2)

Subdivision 1A - Performance-based standards
[Subdivision 1A of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Inserted by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

18A. 

HVNL 25A(1)

18B. 

HVNL 25A(2)

Subdivision 2 - Vehicle operations – mass, dimension and loading
[Subdivision 2 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2016, No. 2, Applied:06 Feb 2015] [Subdivision 2 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

19. 

HVNL 96(1)

20. 

HVNL 102(1)

21. 

HVNL 109(2)

22. 

HVNL 111(1)

23. 

HVNL 129(1)

24. 

HVNL 129(2)

25. 

HVNL 129(3)

26. 

HVNL 130(2)

28. 

HVNL 131(1)

29. 

HVNL 132(2)

30. 

HVNL 132(3)

31. 

HVNL 133(1)

32. 

HVNL 133(2)

33. 

HVNL 133(3)

34. 

HVNL 134(1)

35. 

HVNL 134(2)

36. 

HVNL 137

37. 

HVNL 150(1)

38. 

HVNL 151(2)

39. 

HVNL 151(3)

40. 

HVNL 152(1)

41. 

HVNL 152(2)

42. 

HVNL 152(3)

44A. 

HVNL 153A(1)

45. 

HVNL 181(3)

47. 

HVNL 184(1)

48. 

HVNL 185(1)

49. 

HVNL 185(2)

50. 

HVNL 190(1)

51. 

HVNL 191(1)

52. 

HVNL 191(3)

53. 

HVNL 192(1)

54. 

HVNL 192(2)

Subdivision 3 - Vehicle operations – speeding
[Subdivision 3 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

Subdivision 4 - Vehicle operations – driver fatigue
[Subdivision 4 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2016, No. 2, Applied:06 Feb 2015] [Subdivision 4 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2018, No. 6, Applied:31 Jan 2018] [Subdivision 4 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2019, No. 7, Applied:06 Mar 2019]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

56. 

HVNL 250(1)

57. 

HVNL 251(1)

58. 

HVNL 254(1)

59. 

HVNL 256(1)

60. 

HVNL 258(1)

61. 

HVNL 260(1)

62. 

HVNL 263(1)

63. 

HVNL 284(2)

64. 

HVNL 286(1)

65. 

HVNL 287(2)

66. 

HVNL 287(3)

67. 

HVNL 288(1)

68. 

HVNL 288(2)

69. 

HVNL 288(3)

70. 

HVNL 293(1)

71. 

HVNL 296(1)

72. 

HVNL 297(2)

73. 

HVNL 298(1)

74. 

HVNL 299

75. 

HVNL 301

76. 

HVNL 302

77. 

HVNL 303

78. 

HVNL 305(1)

79. 

HVNL 305(2)

80. 

HVNL 305(3)

81. 

HVNL 306

82. 

HVNL 307(2)

82A. 

HVNL 307(3)

83. 

HVNL 308(1)

84. 

HVNL 309(2)

85. 

HVNL 310(2)

85A. 

HVNL 312(3)

86. 

HVNL 319(1)

86A. 

HVNL 319A(2)

87. 

HVNL 321(1)

88. 

HVNL 321(3)

89. 

HVNL 322(2)

90. 

HVNL 323(2)

90AA. 

HVNL 324(2)

90A. 

HVNL 324A(2)

91. 

HVNL 341(1)

92. 

HVNL 341(2)

93. 

HVNL 341(3)

94. 

HVNL 341(4)

94AA. 

HVNL 341(5)

94A. 

HVNL 341(7)

95. 

HVNL 354(3)

96. 

HVNL 354(5)

97. 

HVNL 355(2)

98. 

HVNL 355(4)

99. 

HVNL 355(6)

100. 

HVNL 373(2)

101. 

HVNL 375

102. 

HVNL 376(2)

103. 

HVNL 376(3)

104. 

HVNL 377

105. 

HVNL 392(2)

106. 

HVNL 395

107. 

HVNL 396(2)

108. 

HVNL 399(2)

Subdivision 5 - Accreditation
[Subdivision 5 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Substituted by S.R. 2018, No. 6, Applied:31 Jan 2018]

Column 1

Column 2

Item

Offence

108A. 

HVNL 466(2A)

108B. 

HVNL 466(2B)

109. 

HVNL 467

110. 

HVNL 468(1)

111. 

HVNL 468(3)

112. 

HVNL 469(2)

113. 

HVNL 470(3)

114. 

HVNL 470(8)

115. 

HVNL 471(2)

116. 

HVNL 471(3)

117. 

HVNL 476(2)

Subdivision 6 - Enforcement
[Subdivision 6 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2016, No. 2, Applied:06 Feb 2015] [Subdivision 6 of Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2018, No. 6, Applied:31 Jan 2018]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

118. 

HVNL 488

119. 

HVNL 513(4)

120. 

HVNL 514(3)

121. 

HVNL 516(3)

122. 

HVNL 517(4)

123. 

HVNL 522(5)

124. 

HVNL 524(5)

125. 

HVNL 526(4)

126. 

HVNL 528(3)

127. 

HVNL 529

127A. 

HVNL 531(4)

127B. 

HVNL 531A(4)

127C. 

HVNL 531A(5)

128. 

HVNL 533(7)

129. 

HVNL 534(5)

130. 

HVNL 567(4)

131. 

HVNL 568(3)

132. 

HVNL 568(7)

133. 

HVNL 569(2)

134. 

HVNL 569(7)

Division 2 - Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) National Regulation
[Division 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2018, No. 6, Applied:31 Jan 2018]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

136. 

MDL 16(2)

137. 

MDL 28

138. 

MDL 34(2)

Division 3 - Heavy Vehicle (Fatigue Management) National Regulation
[Division 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2018, No. 6, Applied:31 Jan 2018]

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Offence

139. 

HVFM 18A(1)

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 5 February 2014