Victorian Consolidated Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS (TRANSPORT BY ROAD OR RAIL) REGULATIONS 2018 - REG 1

The objectives of these Regulations are—

        (a)     to set out the obligations of persons involved in the transport of dangerous goods over land; and

        (b)     to reduce as far as practicable the risk of personal injury, death, property damage and environmental harm arising from the transport of dangerous goods over land; and

        (c)     to give effect to the standards, requirements and procedures of the ADG Code so far as they apply to the transport of dangerous goods over land; and

        (d)     to promote consistency between the standards, requirements and procedures applying to the land transport of dangerous goods and other modes of transport; and

        (e)     to make consequential amendments to the Dangerous Goods (Explosives) Regulations 2011 and the Dangerous Goods (Storage and Handling) Regulations 2012.