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Requirement for tow truck being driven to be licensed

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Part 2Requirements as to tow trucks
Division 1Requirements for operating and driving certain tow trucks

8 Requirement for tow truck being driven to be licensed

(1)

A person must not drive a tow truck that is being operated in the course of conducting an accident towing service business unless there is in force a regular tow truck licence or a heavy tow truck licence that authorises the operation of the tow truck.

  1. 60 penalty units.
(2)

A person who is driving a tow truck that is being operated in the course of conducting an accident towing service business under a regular tow truck licence must ensure that the tow truck does not tow a vehicle that the tow truck is not capable of towing.

  1. 60 penalty units.
(3)

A person who is driving a tow truck that is being operated in the course of conducting an accident towing service business under a heavy tow truck licence must ensure that the tow truck does not tow—

(a)

a vehicle of a gross vehicle mass of less than 4 tonnes; or

(b)

a vehicle that the tow truck is not capable of towing.

  1. 60 penalty units.

S. 9 substituted by No. 28/2009 s. 63(1).

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