Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 146

146 Regulating vehicle operations and road rules

(1) A regulation may prescribe rules about the operation of vehicles and use of the road network, including, for example, rules about—

(a) driver behaviour; and

(b) loading, unloading and securing loads; and

(c) keeping and producing records; and

(d) vehicle mass and dimension; and

(e) defective vehicles and ways of managing them; and

(f) the environmental impact of vehicle use; and

(g) the use of the road network by vehicles, trains, trams, persons and animals; and

(ga) traffic density, routes and load restrictions for vehicles with a GVM of more than 4.5t; and

(h) removing vehicles from the road network if they pose a risk to safety or impede the use of the road network; and

(i) the recovery of removed vehicles by their owners or registered operators, and fees for removing and storing the vehicles.

(2) Also, a regulation may provide for the following—

(a) for a motor vehicle with a GVM of more than 4.5t—

(i) prohibiting the vehicle’s registration in circumstances stated in the regulation; or

(ii) prohibiting the transfer, or cancellation, of the vehicle’s registration in circumstances stated in the regulation; or

(iii) prohibiting a person from driving the vehicle in Queensland if the person irresponsibly uses the vehicle;

(b) prohibiting a visiting heavy vehicle from being driven in Queensland if a person irresponsibly uses the vehicle.

(3) A regulation may prescribe what is an irresponsible use of a motor vehicle.

(4) In this section—

"visiting heavy vehicle" means a motor vehicle with a GVM of more than 4.5t that is registered in the Commonwealth, another State or a foreign country under a corresponding law to this Act.