Victorian Numbered Acts

ROAD SAFETY AMENDMENT (FATIGUE MANAGEMENT) ACT 2008 (NO. 56 OF 2008)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF ROAD LEGISLATION FURTHER AMENDMENT ACT 2007

   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Definitions for fatigue management  
   5.      Duties on loading managers  
   6.      Offences  
   7.      Removal of reference to the Fatigue Authorities Panel  
   8.      BFM hours—two-up drivers  
   9.      Duty on employers, prime contractors, operators and schedulers to ensure driver compliance  
   10.     Drivers working under AFM accreditation  
   11.     New section 191QA inserted  
   12.     Driver must carry work diary  
   13.     Information that driver must record in work diary  
   14.     How driver must record information in work diary  
   15.     Destroyed, lost or malfunctioning work diaries  
   16.     Information that record keeper must record  
   17.     Making entries in someone else's work diary prohibited  
   18.     Tampering with electronic work diaries prohibited  
   19.     Granting BFM accreditation  
   20.     BFM accreditation certificate and period of certification  
   21.     Obligations of operator under BFM accreditation  
   22.     Operator must advise of change or end of accreditation  
   23.     New section 191ZOA inserted  
   24.     Application for AFM accreditation  
   25.     Granting AFM accreditation  
   26.     Driver must carry AFM accreditation details  
   27.     Obligations of operator under AFM accreditation  
   28.     New sections 191ZXA and 191ZXB inserted  
   29.     Operator must advise of change or end of accreditation  
   30.     Work diary exemption  
   31.     Grounds for cancellation—without application  
   32.     Return of accreditation certificate or exemption  
   33.     Replacement of lost etc. accreditation certificates and exemptions  
   34.     Offence to falsely represent that accreditation held  
   35.     Requiring driver to stop working if impaired by fatigue  
   36.     What constitutes reasonable steps  
   37.     Proceedings for offences  
   38.     Division 8 heading amended  
   39.     Australian Transport Council may approve standards  
   40.     Section 191ZZZB repealed  
   41.     Decisions that may be considered and reviewed  
   42.     New section 191ZZZE inserted  
   43.     Schedule 3 amended  
   44.     Schedule 4 amended  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986

   45.     Section 77A amended  
   46.     Section 213 amended  

   PART 4--REPEAL OF ACT

   47.     Repeal of Act  
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