Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (ACT) - SECT 704

    (1)     A person must not represent—

        (a)     that the person has been granted a heavy vehicle authority the person has not been granted; or

        (b)     that a heavy vehicle authority has been granted in relation to a thing for which it has not been granted; or

        (c)     that the person is operating under a heavy vehicle authority that the person is not entitled to operate under; or

        (d)     that a thing is operating under a heavy vehicle authority that the thing is not authorised to operate under.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

    (2)     A person must not represent that the person or a thing is operating under a heavy vehicle authority if the authority is no longer in force.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

    (3)     A person must not possess a document that falsely purports to be—

        (a)     an accreditation certificate for a heavy vehicle accreditation; or

        (b)     a document mentioned in section 468(1)(b) or (c); or

        (c)     a document evidencing the grant of an electronic recording system approval, exemption, authorisation, permit or other authority under this Law; or

Examples—

a Commonwealth Gazette notice, a permit

        (d)     a copy of a document mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

Maximum penalty—$10000.

    (4)     In this section—

"heavy vehicle authority" means—

        (a)     a heavy vehicle accreditation; or

        (b)     an electronic recording system approval, exemption, authorisation, permit or other authority under this Law.