19Offences for which persons charged do not have benefit of mistake of fact defence

19 Offences for which persons charged do not have benefit of mistake of fact defence

(1)  This section declares, for the purposes of section 14 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Tasmania), the effect of a provision of that Law that states that a person charged with an offence does not have the benefit of the mistake of fact defence for the offence.

(2)  In proceedings for an offence, criminal responsibility for the offence is not entailed by an act or omission done or made under an honest and reasonable, but mistaken, belief in the existence of any state of facts the existence of which would excuse such act or omission.