297Information required to be recorded immediately after starting work

297 Information required to be recorded immediately after starting work

297 Information required to be recorded immediately after starting work

(1) This section applies to required information that the national regulations specify for the purposes of this section as required to be recorded immediately after the driver starts work on a day.

(2) The driver must record the required information to which this section applies immediately after starting work on a day.

Maximum penalty—$6000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (2) in relation to the failure of the driver to record information immediately after starting to undertake 100+km work under standard hours on a day, it is a defence for the driver to prove that at the time of the offence—

(a) the driver was unaware that the driver would be undertaking 100+km work under standard hours on the day; and

(b) the driver recorded the information in the driver’s work diary as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the driver would be undertaking 100+km work under standard hours on the day.

s 297: Am 2015 No 12, sec 67 and Sch.