6Corresponding provisions of the road laws of other jurisdictions

6 Corresponding provisions of the road laws of other jurisdictions

(1) For subsection 132(7) of the Act, a court may treat an offence provision of a road law of another jurisdiction as a corresponding provision of an offence provision mentioned in Column 1 of Schedule 2 to the Act if: (a) the first‑mentioned offence provision relates to mass, dimension or load restraint requirements; and (b) the court is satisfied that: (i) conduct that contravenes the first‑mentioned offence provision would, if it occurred within this jurisdiction, contravene the offence provision mentioned in Schedule 2; or (ii) conduct that contravenes the first‑mentioned offence provision is sufficiently similar to conduct that contravenes the offence provision mentioned in Schedule 2 that it is just to treat the first‑mentioned offence provision as a corresponding provision of the offence provision mentioned in Schedule 2. (2) For subregulation (1), it is immaterial, for the purpose of determining whether a provision of a road law corresponds to a provision mentioned in Column 1 of Schedule 2, that: (a) strict liability or absolute liability applies to some or all of the physical elements of the offence created by 1 provision but not to any elements or the same elements of the offence created by the other provision; or (b) either of the provisions has been repealed.