466Accreditation labels for maintenance management accreditation and mass management accreditation

466 Accreditation labels for maintenance management accreditation and mass management accreditation

466 Accreditation labels for maintenance management accreditation and mass management accreditation

(1) If the Regulator grants maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation to an operator of a heavy vehicle, the Regulator must give the operator an accreditation label for each relevant vehicle for the accreditation.

(2) If the operator amends the relevant management system to identify a new relevant vehicle for the accreditation—

(a) the operator may ask the Regulator for an accreditation label for the new relevant vehicle; and

(b) the Regulator must give the accreditation label to the operator.

(2A) The operator must attach the accreditation label for a relevant vehicle to the vehicle in a way that the label—

(a) is readable from outside the vehicle; and

(b) is not wholly or partly obscured, defaced or otherwise not legible.

Maximum penalty—$3000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(2B) A person must not drive a relevant vehicle if the vehicle’s accreditation label—

(a) is not attached to the vehicle; or

(b) is attached to the vehicle in a way that the label is wholly or partly obscured, defaced or otherwise not legible.

Maximum penalty—$3000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(3) In this section—

accreditation label, for a relevant vehicle for a maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation, means a label stating the number identifying the accreditation for attaching to the vehicle.

relevant vehicle, for a maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation, means a vehicle identified in the relevant management system as currently being operated in accordance with the management system.

s 466: Am 2016 No 65, sec 133.