Dangerous Goods (Transport by Road or Rail) Regulations 2018
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139 Train drivers
(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.
(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 inspector or an officer of an emergency service, if that person asks the driver to produce the information for inspection.
(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 dangerous goods in the load is readily available elsewhere in the immediate vicinity of the depot, yard or those operations.