sec.14Deciding application

sec.14 Deciding application

The chief executive must, after considering an application made under section 13 — refuse the authorisation; or grant the authorisation, with or without conditions. The chief executive may grant the authorisation only if the chief executive is satisfied the use of the unregistered vehicle or class of unregistered vehicle on the road would not adversely affect road safety or inconvenience other road users. Before granting, or as a condition of, the authorisation, the chief executive may require the applicant to pay the chief executive’s actual or estimated costs of any of the following the chief executive considers necessary in relation to allowing the unregistered vehicle or class of unregistered vehicle to be used on the road under the authorisation— assessing the vehicle’s route and preparing the relevant plans and estimates; preparing, strengthening, repairing, replacing or reconstructing road transport infrastructure on the vehicle’s route; ensuring compliance with a condition or proposed condition of the authorisation. Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to an authorisation to use either of the following on a road— an unregistered vehicle that is a heavy vehicle; a class of unregistered vehicle to the extent the class includes a heavy vehicle. (sec.14-ssec.1) The chief executive must, after considering an application made under section 13 — refuse the authorisation; or grant the authorisation, with or without conditions. (sec.14-ssec.2) The chief executive may grant the authorisation only if the chief executive is satisfied the use of the unregistered vehicle or class of unregistered vehicle on the road would not adversely affect road safety or inconvenience other road users. (sec.14-ssec.3) Before granting, or as a condition of, the authorisation, the chief executive may require the applicant to pay the chief executive’s actual or estimated costs of any of the following the chief executive considers necessary in relation to allowing the unregistered vehicle or class of unregistered vehicle to be used on the road under the authorisation— assessing the vehicle’s route and preparing the relevant plans and estimates; preparing, strengthening, repairing, replacing or reconstructing road transport infrastructure on the vehicle’s route; ensuring compliance with a condition or proposed condition of the authorisation. (sec.14-ssec.4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to an authorisation to use either of the following on a road— an unregistered vehicle that is a heavy vehicle; a class of unregistered vehicle to the extent the class includes a heavy vehicle.

• (a) refuse the authorisation; or
• (b) grant the authorisation, with or without conditions.
• (a) assessing the vehicle’s route and preparing the relevant plans and estimates;
• (b) preparing, strengthening, repairing, replacing or reconstructing road transport infrastructure on the vehicle’s route;