Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (ACT) - SECT 466

    (1)     If the Regulator grants maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation to an operator of a heavy vehicle, the Regulator must give the operator an accreditation label for each relevant vehicle for the accreditation.

    (2)     If the operator amends the relevant management system to identify a new relevant vehicle for the accreditation—

        (a)     the operator may ask the Regulator for an accreditation label for the new relevant vehicle; and

        (b)     the Regulator must give the accreditation label to the operator.

    (2A)     The operator must attach the accreditation label for a relevant vehicle to the vehicle in a way that the label—

        (a)     is readable from outside the vehicle; and

        (b)     is not wholly or partly obscured, defaced or otherwise not legible.

Maximum penalty—$3000.

    (2B)     A person must not drive a relevant vehicle if the vehicle's accreditation label—

        (a)     is not attached to the vehicle; or

        (b)     is attached to the vehicle in a way that the label is wholly or partly obscured, defaced or otherwise not legible.

Maximum penalty—$3000.

    (3)     In this section—

"accreditation label", for a relevant vehicle for a maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation, means a label stating the number identifying the accreditation for attaching to the vehicle.

"relevant vehicle", for a maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation, means a vehicle identified in the relevant management system as currently being operated in accordance with the management system.