13Meanings of qualified, fit and authorised

13 Meanings of qualified, fit and authorised (1) A person is qualified to drive a vehicle or run its engine at a particular time if, at that time, the person: (a) holds a driver licence of the appropriate class to drive the vehicle, and the driver licence is not suspended; and (b) is not prevented by or under a law (for example, by the conditions of the licence) from driving the vehicle. (2) A person is fit to drive a vehicle or run its engine at a particular time if, at that time, the person: (a) is apparently physically and mentally fit to drive the vehicle; and (b) without limiting paragraph (a) – is not apparently affected by either or both of the following: (i) alcohol; (ii) any drug that affects the person's fitness to drive; and (c) is not found to have a concentration of alcohol in the person's blood that exceeds the amount permitted by a law of the Territory; and (d) is not found to have a concentration of a drug that affects the person's fitness to drive in the person's blood or oral fluid that exceeds the amount permitted by a law of the Territory. (3) A person is authorised: (a) to drive a vehicle if the person is the operator of the vehicle or has the operator's authority to drive it; or

Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2010 13 (b) to run the engine of a vehicle if the person is the operator of the vehicle or has the operator's authority to drive it or run its engine. (4) Subsection (3) has effect regardless of whether or not the person is qualified to drive the vehicle or run its engine.