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Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995
sec.39CInterfering with equipment or load of particular vehicles
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### sec.39C Interfering with equipment or load of particular vehicles
This section applies if a person is required—
to stop a vehicle under section 32 ; or
to move a heavy vehicle, a prescribed vehicle or a suspected dangerous goods vehicle to a place under section 33 ; or
to move a vehicle to a place under section 33A .
A person must not, for the time reasonably necessary to enable the authorised officer to perform a function or exercise a power for which the vehicle was stopped or moved—
interfere with any equipment in the vehicle; or
unload or change the position of any part of the vehicle’s load.
Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.
s 39C ins 2007 No. 43 s 47
amd 2008 No. 66 s 4 sch pt 1 ; 2008 No. 67 s 63 ; 2010 No. 13 s 3 sch pt 1 ; 2013 No. 26 s 63
(sec.39C-ssec.1) This section applies if a person is required— to stop a vehicle under section 32 ; or to move a heavy vehicle, a prescribed vehicle or a suspected dangerous goods vehicle to a place under section 33 ; or to move a vehicle to a place under section 33A .
(sec.39C-ssec.2) A person must not, for the time reasonably necessary to enable the authorised officer to perform a function or exercise a power for which the vehicle was stopped or moved— interfere with any equipment in the vehicle; or unload or change the position of any part of the vehicle’s load. Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.
- (a) to stop a vehicle under section 32 ; or
- (b) to move a heavy vehicle, a prescribed vehicle or a suspected dangerous goods vehicle to a place under section 33 ; or
- (c) to move a vehicle to a place under section 33A .
- (a) interfere with any equipment in the vehicle; or
- (b) unload or change the position of any part of the vehicle’s load.