40BVehicle operations

40B Vehicle operations

[Section 40B Inserted by No. 71 of 2001, s. 9, Applied:01 Jan 2002]

(1)  The regulations may provide for matters relating to vehicle operations.

(2)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) , the regulations may prescribe requirements in relation to any or all of the following:

(a) masses and dimensions of vehicles and combinations and their loads;

(b) loads on vehicles and combinations, including the manner of loading and the carriage and security of loads;

(c) routes on which, and times at which, certain vehicles or combinations, or classes of vehicles or combinations, may travel;

(d) restrictions on the use of vehicles and combinations, and classes of vehicles and combinations, on public streets;

(e) methods for determining the mass and dimensions of vehicles, combinations and their loads;

(f) methods for testing instruments used for determining the mass and dimensions of vehicles, combinations and their loads;

(g) the carriage on vehicles and combinations of long, large, heavy or projecting loads;

(h) tyre pressures and axles;

(i) [Section 40B Subsection (2) amended by No. 30 of 2013, Sched. 1, Applied:10 Feb 2014] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(j) the number of hours for which a person may drive, or work in relation to, a vehicle or combination, or class of vehicles or combinations, and the rest periods required to be taken by that person;

(k) the use, carriage and keeping of logbooks in relation to specified classes of vehicles and combinations or other specified matters;

(l) the issue of certificates in relation to vehicle operations;

(m) vehicles that are towing or being towed, including permissible masses of such vehicles;

(n) pilot and escort vehicles;