Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1986 No. 291 INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 35
REQUIREMENTS FOR A CHARGE MONITORING DEVICE
1. The device must be one that may be identified by means of a code consisting
of-

   (a)  a designation or type number, being a number, or group of characters,
        common to all devices similar in design to the device and manufactured
        by the manufacturer of the device; and

   (b)  a serial number, being a number that has been allotted to that device
        by its manufacturer from a range of numbers approved by the Minister,
        by notice published in the Gazette, as serial numbers in respect of
        charge monitoring devices manufactured by the manufacturer of the
        device.
2. The device shall display, or have a plate affixed to it displaying-

   (a)  the name of its manufacturer; and

   (b)  the designation or type number, and the serial number, of the device.
3. (1) The device must be able to record, either in a removable document
located in the device or in an electronic memory circuit located in the device
from which information can subsequently be transferred by electronic or
mechanical means to a document-

   (a)  the distances travelled in a forward direction by the vehicle to which
        it is fitted or information from which the distances so travelled by
        the vehicle can be ascertained; and

   (b)  information establishing that any distance, or information, of the
        kind referred to in paragraph (a) recorded by the device has in fact
        been recorded by the device.

(2) Where the device is designed to record the distances travelled by the
vehicle to which it is fitted, the device must be able to keep a cumulative
record of the distances travelled in a forward direction by the vehicle to a
total of not less than 500,000 kilometres.

(3) Where the device is designed to record information from which the
distances travelled by the vehicle to which it is fitted can be ascertained,
the device must be able to keep a cumulative record of that information in
such a way that the distances travelled in a forward direction by the vehicle
to a total of not less than 500,000 kilometres may be ascertained from the
information recorded.

(4) The device may record the distances travelled in reverse gear by the
vehicle to which it is fitted or information from which those distances can be
ascertained but must not, in so doing, cancel any record made by the device of
any distance travelled in a forward direction by the vehicle or of any
information from which any distance so travelled can be ascertained.
4. All the external parts of the device must be secured by seals in such
manner as to ensure that a person cannot manipulate, or tamper or interfere
with, the device without breaking the seals.
5. The device must be so designed that-

   (a)  the document, or electronic memory circuit, of the kind referred to in
        sub-clause 3 (1) located in the device is protected from any
        electrical, magnetic, microwave or physical interference; and

   (b)  any such interference would be readily detected.
6. Tolerances in recordings made by the device at temperatures varying between
minus 20 degrees Celsius and 100 degrees Celsius shall not be more or less
than 5 per cent of the actual distances in respect of which the recordings
were made.
7. The enclosures of the device must provide protection against the ingress of
dust and water inside the device to a degree commensurable with the degree of
protection represented by the code IP66 under the system for the
classification of degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical
equipment set out in Australian Standard 1939-1981 of the Standards
Association of Australia, being that Standard as in force on 1 January 1987.