Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1990 No. 144 INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 4

4. Regulation 12I of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following
regulation substituted: Weighing vehicles

"12I. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 13 (1) (aa) of the Act, a police
officer or an inspector may direct the driver of a motor vehicle or trailer to
cause the motor vehicle or trailer to be driven or towed to a weighing station
for the purposes of weighing the motor vehicle or trailer there to establish
whether it is overloaded.

"(2) For the purposes of paragraph 13 (1) (aa) of the Act, where:

   (a)  there is erected near a weighing station a sign directing drivers of
        motor vehicles or trailers to drive those motor vehicles or trailers
        into a weighing station to enable them to be weighed; and

   (b)  the sign is visible from a road; and

   (c)  the weighing station is open; the driver on that road of a motor
        vehicle or trailer that has a gross mass exceeding 4.5 tonnes must
        obey any directions on that sign that are applicable in respect of the
        motor vehicle or trailer he or she is driving.

"(3) The driver of a motor vehicle or trailer must not without reasonable
excuse refuse to comply with a direction under subregulation (1) or a
direction referred to in subregulation (2).
Penalty: $3,000.

"(4) A direction under subregulation (1) or a direction referred to in
subregulation (2) is not to require the driver of a motor vehicle or trailer
to cause the motor vehicle or trailer to be driven or towed to a place that is
more than 5 kilometres distant from the point that is closest to that place on
the shortest practicable route to the ultimate destination of that motor
vehicle or trailer.".