186False or misleading transport documentation for goods

186 False or misleading transport documentation for goods

186 False or misleading transport documentation for goods

(1) This section applies if goods are consigned for road transport using a heavy vehicle, or for transport partly by road using a heavy vehicle and partly by some other means.

(2) The consignor of the goods must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the consignment documentation is not false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

(3) If the goods are Australian-packed goods, the packer of the goods must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the consignment documentation is not false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

(4) If the goods are overseas-packed goods, the receiver of the goods must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the consignment documentation is not false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

(5) If the goods are loaded on the heavy vehicle, the loading manager for, or loader of, the goods must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the consignment documentation is not false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

(6), (7) (Repealed)

(8) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (2), (3), (4) or (5), it is enough for a charge to state that the transport documentation was ‘false or misleading’, without specifying whether it was false or whether it was misleading.

(9) In this section—

Australian-packed goods means goods packed—

(a) in Australia; and

(b) on a pallet or in a package, freight container or other container.

consignment documentation, for goods, means the transport documentation for the consignment of the goods, in so far as the documentation relates to the mass, dimension or loading of any or all of the goods.

overseas-packed goods means goods packed—

(a) outside Australia; and

(b) on a pallet or in a package, freight container or other container.

receiver, of goods in Australia, means a person who, other than the person who merely unloads the goods—

(a) first receives the goods in Australia; or