137Train driver’s duties

137 Train driver’s duties

(1)  A person must not drive a train that is transporting a placard load if the required emergency information for the dangerous goods in the load is not in the train driver’s cab.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

(2)  A train driver transporting a placard load must produce the required emergency information for the dangerous goods in the load for inspection by an authorised officer or an officer of an emergency service, if the officer asks the driver to produce the information for inspection.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

(3)  Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply if the train driver transporting dangerous goods is in a depot or yard, or is engaged in shunting operations, and the required emergency information for the goods is readily available elsewhere in the immediate vicinity of the depot, yard or those operations.