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Version No. 001

West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 109/2025

Version as at
14 October 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page

Part 1—Preliminary 1

1 Objectives 1

2 Authorising provision 2

3 Definitions 2

Part 2—Exemptions 7

4 Vehicles exempt from registration 7

5 Vehicles exempt from payment of tolls 7

Part 3—Notices for toll zones 10

6 Placement of notices in the vicinity of the West Gate Tunnel tollway outside a toll zone 10

7 Information to be provided by notices 11

Part 4—Prescribed tolling devices and processes 13

8 Prescribed tolling devices 13

9 Prescribed manner of use of digital toll camera unit 13

10 Prescribed manner of testing of digital toll camera unit 13

11 Prescribed process for production of image or message 15

Part 5—Certificates 17

12 Certificates issued under section 56(1) of the Act 17

13 Certificates issued under section 56(3) of the Act 17

14 Certificates issued under section 57 of the Act 18

15 Certificates issued under section 58 of the Act 18

Part 6—Miscellaneous 19

16 Prescribed period for rejecting statement 19

17 Prescribed administrative amount 19

Schedule 1—Connecting roads 20

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Endnotes 21

1 General information 21

2 Table of Amendments 23

3 Explanatory details 24

Version No. 001

West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 109/2025

Version as at
14 October 2025

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Objectives

The objectives of these Regulations are—

(a) to make provision for the exemption, by the relevant corporation, of vehicles or classes of vehicles from the requirement to be registered under Part 3 of the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019; and

(b) to exempt particular classes of vehicle from the payment of tolls; and

(c) to require the relevant corporation to cause notices to be placed in the vicinity of the West Gate Tunnel tollway outside a toll zone; and

(d) to prescribe tolling devices; and

(e) to prescribe the manner in which tolling devices are to be tested and used; and

(f) to prescribe the process for the production of an image or message; and

(g) to prescribe the form and particulars of evidentiary certificates; and

(h) to prescribe the period in which a nomination rejection statement can be given; and

(i) to specify the prescribed administrative amount to be paid under a court order made under section 40 of the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019; and

(j) to prescribe any other matter required to be prescribed for the purposes of the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019.

2 Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 77 of the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019.

3 Definitions

In these Regulations—

Australian Army has the same meaning as in the Defence Act 1903 of the Commonwealth;

Australian Defence Force has the same meaning as in the Defence Act 1903 of the Commonwealth;

checksum means a number produced by the application of an algorithm to the contents of—

(a) a digital file (other than the checksum contained in the digital file); or

(b) a toll message file (other than the checksum contained in the toll message file);

computer means any electronic device for storing or processing information;

connecting freeway means the following—

(a) the Princes Freeway;

(b) CityLink;

(c) the West Gate Freeway;

(d) the Western Ring Road;

connecting road means a road specified in Schedule 1;

control unit means a computer that temporarily stores images taken by a digital toll camera unit;

digital file means a file in a digital format created by a digital toll camera unit, or an electronic copy of that file, that contains the following—

(a) a digital image;

(b) data indicating the toll zone in which the vehicle or trailer to which the image relates was used;

(c) data from which the date on and the time at which that vehicle or trailer was used in the toll zone can be calculated;

(d) the checksum for that digital file;

digital image means—

(a) an image of a vehicle or part of a vehicle or of a trailer or part of a trailer that has been taken and processed into a digital format by a digital toll camera unit; or

(b) an electronic copy of an image referred to in paragraph (a);

digital toll camera unit means any of the following devices—

(a) Vehicle Registration Sensor: Kapsch Unit VRX-3401-LPC;

(b) Vehicle Registration Sensor: Kapsch Unit VRX-3401-LPI;

emergency has the same meaning as it has in section 3 of the Emergency Management Act 2013;

invoice has the same meaning as it has in section 32(10) of the Act;

relevant corporation has the same meaning as paragraph (a) of the definition of relevant West Gate Tunnel Corporation in section 3 of the Act;

responsible road authority has the same meaning as it has in section 3(1) of the Road Management Act 2004;

tag means any of the following devices—

(a) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TRP4010;

(b) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/1xA;

(c) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/1xB;

(d) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/10A;

(e) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/10B;

(f) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/10D;

(g) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/11A;

(h) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/11B;

(i) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3203/11D;

(j) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3204/00A;

(k) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3204/01A;

(l) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3204/02A;

(m) the vehicle transponder known as the Kapsch TS 3204/02B;

(n) the vehicle transponder known as the Q-Free OBU615F;

testing officer means—

(a) the head, or a person authorised by the head, of a faculty or department providing education or training in electrical engineering, communications engineering or electronics engineering at a university or TAFE institute within the meaning of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006; or

(b) a person, or a member of a class of persons, approved by the Secretary as being appropriately qualified to conduct tests for the purposes of these Regulations; or

(c) a testing officer of a testing facility accredited by the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia ACN 004 379 748; or

(d) a person who—

(i) holds a Bachelor or higher degree in the field of electrical engineering, communications engineering or electronics engineering from a university within the meaning of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006; and

(ii) is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia; and

(iii) is approved by the President of the Victorian Division of that Institution as being appropriately qualified to conduct tests for the purposes of these Regulations;

the Act means the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019;

toll message file means a digital file created by a control unit, or an electronic copy of that file, that contains data indicating the following—

(a) the toll zone in which the vehicle or trailer that the file relates to was used;

(b) the date on and the time at which the vehicle or trailer was used in the toll zone;

(c) the checksum for each digital file created in relation to the vehicle or trailer that was used in the toll zone;

(d) the checksum for that toll message file.

Part 2—Exemptions

4 Vehicles exempt from registration

For the purposes of section 32(8)(a) of the Act, the relevant corporation may—

(a) exempt a vehicle or class of vehicle from the requirement to be registered under Part 3 of the Act; and

(b) make such exemptions—

(i) the same for all cases, or different for different cases or classes of case, or different for the same case or class of case for different purposes; or

(ii) either unconditionally or subject to any specified conditions and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified; or

(iii) so as to apply at all times or at particular times or periods of time.

5 Vehicles exempt from payment of tolls

For the purposes of sections 25(b) and 32(8)(b) of the Act, the following classes of vehicle are exempt from the payment of tolls—

(a) an ambulance under the control of—

(i) an ambulance service within the meaning of the Ambulance Services Act 1986; or

(ii) an ambulance service created under a law in force in another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth that the Minister, by notice in the Government Gazette, declares to be an ambulance service to which this paragraph applies; or

(iii) the Australian Defence Force;

(b) a fire service unit under the control of—

(i) Fire Rescue Victoria as established under the Fire Rescue Victoria Act 1958; or

(ii) the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action; or

(iii) the Country Fire Authority appointed under the Country Fire Authority Act 1958; or

(iv) the Australian Defence Force;

(c) a vehicle under the control of, or being used in the course of duty by—

(i) a police officer or a member of a police force of another jurisdiction within the meaning of the Victoria Police Act 2013; or

(ii) a member of a police force or police service of the Military, Naval or Air Force Police of the Australian Defence Force;

(d) a vehicle under the control of the Australian Defence Force that is being used to convey any of its members or property while on march or duty;

(e) a vehicle being used to convey a member of the Australian Army engaged in connection with emergency ordnance disposal procedures;

(f) an emergency vehicle being used in an emergency that is under the control of—

(i) Airservices Australia established under the Air Services Act 1995 of the Commonwealth; or

(ii) the Emergency Management Commissioner within the meaning of the Emergency Management Act 2013; or

(iii) the Victoria State Emergency Service Authority established under the Victoria State Emergency Service Act 2005.

Part 3—Notices for toll zones

6 Placement of notices in the vicinity of the West Gate Tunnel tollway outside a toll zone

(1) The relevant corporation, with the consent of the responsible road authority, must cause a notice to be placed on a connecting freeway set out in Column 1 of the Table—

(a) within each location set out in Column 2 of the Table that corresponds to the connecting freeway; and

(b) before each entrance to the West Gate Tunnel tollway; and

(c) at a place that is adjacent to the carriageway so as to face a driver who is approaching the West Gate Tunnel tollway; and

(d) at a reasonable distance before each entrance to the West Gate Tunnel tollway so that a driver can safely avoid entering the West Gate Tunnel tollway.

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(2) The relevant corporation, with the consent of the responsible road authority, must cause a notice to be placed on a connecting road specified in Schedule 1—

(a) before each entrance to the West Gate Tunnel tollway; and

(b) at a place that is adjacent to the carriageway so as to face a driver who is approaching the West Gate Tunnel tollway; and

(c) at a reasonable distance before each entrance to the West Gate Tunnel tollway so that a driver can safely avoid entering the West Gate Tunnel tollway.

(3) Nothing in this regulation prevents the relevant corporation, with the consent of the responsible road authority, from causing a notice other than a notice referred to in this regulation to be placed on a connecting freeway or a connecting road in the vicinity of the West Gate Tunnel tollway outside a toll zone.

7 Information to be provided by notices

(1) A notice under regulation 6(1) and (2) must provide that a vehicle is approaching a toll zone and that tolls will apply if the vehicle is used in the toll zone.

(2) A notice under regulation 6(1) and (2) may provide—

(a) information in relation to how a person may register a vehicle under Part 3 of the Act; and

(b) any information that the relevant corporation, with the consent of the responsible road authority, considers necessary to assist a person who is the driver of a vehicle used on the West Gate Tunnel tollway.

Part 4—Prescribed tolling devices and processes

8 Prescribed tolling devices

The following are prescribed as tolling devices for recording the use of a vehicle in a toll zone—

(a) a digital toll camera unit;

(b) a tag.

9 Prescribed manner of use of digital toll camera unit

A digital toll camera unit is used in the prescribed manner if the unit—

(a) is positioned so that it takes images of the registration numbers of vehicles used in the toll zone and transmits the images taken to a control unit; and

(b) has been tested in the manner set out in regulation 10; and

(c) is tested at the following times—

(i) in the case of a unit that has been repaired or modified, after the repairs or modifications are made and before the unit's first use after the repairs or modifications;

(ii) in any other case, within a period of 24 months before the unit's use.

10 Prescribed manner of testing of digital toll camera unit

(1) A digital toll camera unit is tested in the prescribed manner if the testing officer who tests the unit—

(a) is satisfied that—

(i) the unit complies with regulation 9(a); and

(ii) any maintenance or repairs carried out on the unit have been carried out in a satisfactory manner; and

(b) makes a full and accurate record of each unit tested, including—

(i) the serial number of the unit tested; and

(ii) the date on and the time at which the test was carried out; and

(iii) a statement that the unit satisfied each of the testing requirements referred to in paragraph (a); and

(c) signs the record referred to in paragraph (b) and sets out in the record the testing officer's name and qualifications.

(2) The testing officer must, within 21 days after testing a digital toll camera unit—

(a) give the record referred to in subregulation (1)(b) to the relevant corporation; and

(b) give a copy of that record to the enforcement agency.

(3) The relevant corporation must retain a record given to it under subregulation (2)(a) for at least one year after the date on which the test was carried out.

11 Prescribed process for production of image or message

(1) For the purposes of sections 55(b) and 58(f) of the Act, an image or message is produced by a prescribed process if—

(a) a printed image is produced from a digital file created by a digital toll camera unit in accordance with subregulation (2); and

(b) the data contained in the digital file has been verified by a computer—

(i) recalculating the checksum for that digital file; and

(ii) confirming that the checksum produced by the recalculation is identical to the checksum contained in that digital file, or the checksum for that digital file contained in the toll message file; and

(c) the printed image contains an image and a message indicating—

(i) the toll zone in which the vehicle or trailer to which the image relates was used; and

(ii) the date on and the time at which that vehicle or trailer was used in the toll zone.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), a digital file is created by a digital toll camera unit if the digital toll camera unit is used in the manner referred to in regulation 9 and the digital toll camera unit processes the image taken by the unit by—

(a) converting the image taken into a digital format (with or without compressing the image); and

(b) generating data—

(i) indicating the toll zone in which the vehicle or trailer to which the image relates was used; and

(ii) from which the date on and the time at which that vehicle or trailer was used in the toll zone can be calculated; and

(c) combining into one digital file, the digital image with the data referred to in paragraph (b); and

(d) calculating a checksum for the digital file.

Part 5—Certificates

12 Certificates issued under section 56(1) of the Act

For the purposes of section 56(1) of the Act, a certificate is in the prescribed form if the certificate—

(a) states that it is a certificate issued by the Secretary, the Head, Transport for Victoria or the Department of Transport and Planning or an authorised officer under section 56(1) of the Act; and

(b) certifies that, according to the records of the Secretary, the Head, Transport for Victoria or the Department of Transport and Planning (as the case may be), on a particular date the vehicle or trailer specified in the certificate was registered under the Road Safety Act 1986 in the name of the person specified in the certificate.

13 Certificates issued under section 56(3) of the Act

For the purposes of section 56(3) of the Act, a certificate contains the prescribed particulars if the certificate—

(a) states that it is a certificate issued by the Secretary, the Head, Transport for Victoria or the Department of Transport and Planning or an authorised officer under section 56(3) of the Act; and

(b) certifies that, according to the records of the Secretary, the Head, Transport for Victoria or the Department of Transport and Planning (as the case may be), on a particular date specified in the certificate—

(i) the registration number specified in the certificate was assigned to a vehicle or trailer specified in the certificate; or

(ii) a person specified in the certificate was entitled, or last entitled, to use or possess a number plate bearing a registration number specified in the certificate.

14 Certificates issued under section 57 of the Act

For the purposes of section 57 of the Act, a certificate is in the prescribed form if the certificate—

(a) states that it is a certificate issued by the enforcement agency under section 57 of the Act; and

(b) certifies—

(i) that the matters set out in the certificate appear in, or can be calculated from, the records kept by the enforcement agency; and

(ii) that, to the knowledge and belief of the person issuing the certificate on behalf of the enforcement agency, the matters set out in the certificate are true and correct.

15 Certificates issued under section 58 of the Act

For the purposes of section 58 of the Act, a certificate is in the prescribed form if the certificate—

(a) states that it is a certificate issued by the relevant corporation or a person authorised by the relevant corporation under section 58 of the Act; and

(b) certifies that, to the knowledge and belief of the person issuing the certificate or issuing the certificate on behalf of the relevant corporation, the matters set out in the certificate are true and correct.

Part 6—Miscellaneous

16 Prescribed period for rejecting statement

For the purposes of section 27(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed period is 28 days from the date on which an invoice is issued to the person nominated in the statement.

17 Prescribed administrative amount

For the purposes of section 40(1) of the Act, the prescribed administrative amount is $40 in respect of each charge found proven.

Schedule 1—Connecting roads

Regulation 6(2)

Dynon Road

Footscray Road

Grieve Parade

MacKenzie Road

Melbourne Road

Millers Road

Simcock Avenue

Williamstown Road

Wurundjeri Way

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Endnotes

1 General information

See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 109/2025 were made on 14 October 2025 by the Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's deputy, with the advice of the Executive Council, under section 77 of the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019, No. 8/2019 and came into operation on 14 October 2025.

The West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 14 October 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

• Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

• Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule. See section 36(3A).

• Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule. Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

• Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001. Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).

• Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.

• Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule. See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2 Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3 Explanatory details

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