(1) This section applies to required information that the national regulations specify for the purposes of this section as required to be recorded immediately after the driver starts work on a day.
(2) The driver must record the required information to which this section applies immediately after starting work on a day.
Maximum penalty—$6000.
(3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (2) in relation to the failure of the driver to record information immediately after starting to undertake 100+km work under standard hours on a day, it is a defence for the driver to prove that at the time of the offence—
(a) the driver was unaware that the driver would be undertaking 100+km work under standard hours on the day; and
(b) the driver recorded the information in the driver's work diary as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the driver would be undertaking 100+km work under standard hours on the day.