Queensland Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (QUEENSLAND) - SECT 246A

246A Counting periods of less than 15 minutes—electronic work diaries

(1) This section applies if a driver uses an electronic work diary.

(2) Work time and rest time must be counted in 1 minute periods.

(3) A period of work time or rest time of less than 1 minute must not be counted.

(4) A period of rest time of less than 15 minutes does not count towards a minimum rest time.

Examples for the purposes of subsection (4)—

1 A period of not working for 10 minutes does not count towards a minimum rest time because 10 minutes is less than 15 minutes.

2 A period of not working on 3 separate occasions for 14 minutes, 24 minutes and 22 minutes does not count as 60 minutes rest time because the period of 14 minutes, being less than 15 minutes, is disregarded.

Note—

This section relates to calculating whether a driver has complied with maximum work requirements and minimum rest requirements applying to the driver. It does not matter if the technology used by an electronic work diary counts a period less than 1 minute mentioned in subsections (2) and (3) in the course of arriving at calculations that comply with the subsections.