Victorian Numbered Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW APPLICATION ACT 2013 (NO. 30 OF 2013) - SECT 48

The Heavy Vehicle National Law (Victoria) applies as if for section 60(3) and (4) of that Law there were substituted—

    "(3)     A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) in relation to a heavy vehicle's noncompliance with a heavy vehicle standard if, and to the extent, the noncompliance relates to a noncompliance known to the Roads Corporation when the vehicle was registered under the Road Safety Act 1986 .

    (4)     For the purposes of subsection (3), the Roads Corporation is taken to know of a heavy vehicle's noncompliance with a heavy vehicle standard when the vehicle was registered under the Road Safety Act 1986 if the noncompliance is mentioned in—

        (a)     an operations plate that was installed on the vehicle when it was registered; or

        (b)     a certificate of approved operations issued for the vehicle and in force when the vehicle was registered; or

        (c)     a document obtained by the Roads Corporation under the Road Safety Act 1986 in connection with the registration of the vehicle.".