Heavy Vehicle National Law (South Australia) Act 2013
2A vehicle designed to operate both on and off a railway track is rolling stock when the vehicle is being—
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2 A vehicle designed to operate both on and off a railway track is rolling stock when the vehicle is being—
(a) operated or moved on a railway track; or
(b) maintained, repaired or modified in relation to the operation or movement of the vehicle on a railway track.
7—Meaning of fatigue‑regulated heavy vehicle (1) For the purposes of this Law, a heavy vehicle is a fatigue‑regulated heavy vehicle if it is any of the following: (a) a motor vehicle with a GVM of more than 12t; (b) a combination with a GVM of more than 12t; (c) a fatigue‑regulated bus. (2) However, subject to subsection (3), a heavy vehicle is not a fatigue‑regulated heavy vehicle for the purposes of this Law if it is any of the following: (a) a motor vehicle that— (i) is built, or has been modified, to operate primarily as a machine or implement off‑road, on a road‑related area, or on an area of road that is under construction; and (ii) is not capable of carrying goods or passengers by road; Examples for the purposes of paragraph (a)— agricultural machine, backhoe, bulldozer, excavator, forklift, front‑end loader, grader, motor vehicle registered under an Australian road law as a special purpose vehicle (type p) (b) a motorhome. (3) For the purposes of this Law, a truck, or a combination including a truck, that has a machine or implement attached to it is a fatigue‑regulated heavy vehicle— (a) if the GVM of the truck or combination with the attached machine or implement is more than 12t; and (b) whether or not the truck or combination has been built or modified primarily to operate as a machine or implement off‑road, on a road‑related area, or on an area of road that is under construction. Example for the purposes of subsection (3)— a truck to which a crane or drilling rig is attached (4) For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), a motorhome— (a) is a rigid or articulated motor vehicle or combination that is built, or has been modified, primarily for residential purposes; and (b) does not include a motor vehicle that is merely a motor vehicle constructed with a sleeper berth. (5) For the purposes of this section, the GVM of a combination is the total of the GVMs of the vehicles in the combination. 8—Meaning of road and road‑related area (1) For the purposes of this Law, a road is an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or has as 1 of its uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles. Examples of areas that are roads— bridges, cattle grids, culverts, ferries, fords, railway crossings, tunnels or viaducts (2) For the purposes of this Law, a road‑related area is— (a) an area that divides a road; or (b) a footpath, shared path or nature strip adjacent to a road; or (c) a shoulder of a road; or (d) a bicycle path or another area that is not a road and that is open to the public and designated for use by cyclists or animals; or (e) an area that is not a road and that is open to, or used by, the public for driving, riding or parking motor vehicles. (3) Also, an area is a road or road‑related area for the purposes of this Law or a particular provision of this Law as applied in a participating jurisdiction, if the area is declared by a law of that jurisdiction to be a road or road‑related area for the purposes of this Law or the particular provision. bicycle path means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by riders of bicycles; footpath means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by pedestrians; shared path means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by both the riders of bicycles and pedestrians; shoulder, of a road— (a) includes any part of the road that is not designed to be used by motor vehicles in travelling along the road; and (b) includes— (i) for a kerbed road—any part of the kerb; and (ii) for a sealed road—any unsealed part of the road, and any sealed part of the road outside an edge line on the road; but (c) does not include a bicycle path, footpath or shared path. 9—Meaning of convicts and convicted of an offence (1) For the purposes of this Law, a court convicts a person of an offence if the court finds the person guilty, or accepts the person's plea of guilty, for the offence whether or not a conviction is recorded. (2) For the purposes of this Law, a person is convicted of an offence if a court convicts the person of the offence. 10—Interpretation generally