Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) This section declares the effect of a provision of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Victoria) or the national regulations that states that a person charged with an offence does not have the benefit of the mistake of fact defence for the offence.
(2) It is not a defence to a charge for the offence that, at or before the time of the conduct constituting the offence, the person was under a mistaken but honest and reasonable belief about facts which, had they existed, would have meant that the conduct would not have constituted an offence.
Note
See section 14 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Victoria).