In these Regulations, a reference to a person who is involved in the transport of Commonwealth explosives or authorised Commonwealth explosives includes:

(a) a person who does 1 or more of the following:

(i)

packs, or marks packages containing, Commonwealth explosives for transport by road or rail;

(ii)

marks or placards freight containers and vehicles in which Commonwealth explosives are transported by road or rail;

(iii)

consigns Commonwealth explosives for transport by road or rail, including preparing any documents and giving notices or other information required by or under the AE Code for the consignment of such explosives;

(iv)

loads Commonwealth explosives onto a vehicle for transport by road or rail, including securing the explosives on the vehicle and doing anything to comply with any requirement of the AE Code limiting the quantity of such explosives that may be carried on the vehicle;

(v)

unloads Commonwealth explosives that have been transported by road or rail;

(vi) undertakes a task that is required, in accordance with a security plan referred to in Division 4.2, to be undertaken for the security of Commonwealth explosives to which the security plan relates;

(vii)

drives a road vehicle carrying Commonwealth explosives or acts as an attendant, within the meaning of the AE Code, for the transport of those explosives;

(viii)

drives a rail vehicle carrying Commonwealth explosives or a train of which a rail vehicle carrying such explosives forms part;

(ix)

undertakes maintenance on vehicles that are used to transport Commonwealth explosives by road or rail;

(x) undertakes a task in relation to the segregation of Commonwealth explosives from other Commonwealth explosives or other explosives including, if more than 2 rail vehicles are used to transport the explosives, a task in relation to the separation of the rail vehicles; (xi) in the event of an emergency of a kind referred to in the AE Code involving Commonwealth explosives — anything that is required to be done by the Code in such an emergency; (xii) provides training relating to Commonwealth explosives to drivers of vehicles transporting the explosives; and

(b)

the owner of a road vehicle that is being used to transport Commonwealth explosives; and

(c)

a prime contractor having responsibility for the transport of Commonwealth explosives by road or rail; and

(d) a rail operator having responsibility for:

(i)

the transport of Commonwealth explosives by rail; or

(ii)

the condition of a rail vehicle transporting those explosives; and

(e) a person who:

(i)

is, within the meaning of the AE Code, a supervisor or a person in charge; and

(ii)

supervises, or is in charge of, an activity, or part of an activity, covered by this regulation; and

(f)

a Commonwealth public official, not covered by another paragraph of this regulation, whose functions or duties include responsibility for the transport of Commonwealth explosives by road or rail.