Queensland Numbered Acts

TRANSPORT LEGISLATION (ROAD SAFETY AND OTHER MATTERS) AMENDMENT ACT 2019 - SECT 36

36 Amendment of s 84A (Driving of motor vehicles carrying placard loads in tunnels)

(1) Section 84A (3) (a) , after ‘evidence of a placard’—
insert—
, or a thing purporting to be a placard,

(2) Section 84A (3) —
insert—

(c) a motor vehicle is proved to have been driven in a tunnel if there is evidence, in the form of an image taken by a photographic detection device, of—

(i) the motor vehicle facing the tunnel on the entry road for the tunnel; or

(ii) the motor vehicle facing away from the tunnel on the exit road from the tunnel.

(3) Section 84A (4) —
renumber as section 84A (6) .

(4) Section 84A —
insert—

(4) For subsection (3)(a), it is immaterial whether an image of a motor vehicle showing a placard or a thing purporting to be a placard—

(a) is in colour or black and white; or

(b) shows the dimensions of the placard or the thing purporting to be a placard.

(5) Also, for a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), evidence, in the form of an image taken by a photographic detection device, of a trailer at a place is taken to be evidence of a motor vehicle including the trailer at the place.

(5) Section 84A (6) , as renumbered—
insert—

"entry road" , to a tunnel, means the part of a road leading into the tunnel after the last exit from the road before the tunnel.

"exit road" , from a tunnel, means the part of a road leading out of the tunnel before the first exit from the road after the tunnel.