Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012

establishes an entity (the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator) with functions directed at ensuring the object is achieved; and

provides for a database of heavy vehicles; and

prescribes requirements about the following—

the standards heavy vehicles must meet when on roads;

the maximum permissible mass and dimensions of heavy vehicles used on roads;

securing and restraining loads on heavy vehicles used on roads;

preventing drivers of heavy vehicles exceeding speed limits;

preventing drivers of heavy vehicles from driving while fatigued or unfit to drive; and

imposes duties and obligations directed at ensuring heavy vehicles and drivers of heavy vehicles comply with requirements mentioned in paragraph (c)(i) to (v) on persons whose activities may influence whether the vehicles or drivers comply with the requirements; and

includes measures directed at the matters mentioned in section 3(c) and (d) by allowing improved access to roads in certain circumstances, including by—

allowing heavy vehicles, that would otherwise be prevented from being used on roads, access to the roads through exemptions or authorisations granted in circumstances in which the matters mentioned in section 3(a) and (b) will not be compromised; and

providing for accreditation schemes allowing operators of heavy vehicles who adopt best practices directed at the matters mentioned in section 3 to be subject to alternative requirements more suited to the operators’ business operations.