Queensland Numbered Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT 2013 No. 4 - SECT 272

(1) This section applies if the Regulator considers—

(a) a ground exists to cancel a work and rest hours exemption (notice); and

(b) it is necessary to suspend the exemption immediately to prevent or minimise serious harm to public safety.

(2) The Regulator may, by publishing a notice as mentioned in subsection (3) (immediate suspension notice), immediately suspend the work and rest hours exemption (notice) until the earliest of the following—

(a) the Regulator publishes a notice under section 271(5) and the amendment or cancellation takes effect under section 271(6);

(b) the Regulator cancels the suspension;

(c) the end of 56 days after the day the immediate suspension notice is published.

(3) The immediate suspension notice, and (where relevant) notice of the cancellation of the suspension, must be published—

(a) in—

(i) the Commonwealth Gazette; and

(ii) a newspaper circulating generally throughout each relevant participating jurisdiction; and

(b) on the Regulator's website; and

(c) in any other newspaper the Regulator considers appropriate.

Example for the purposes of paragraph (c)—

If the work and rest hours exemption (notice) relates to a particular part of a participating jurisdiction, the Regulator may consider it appropriate to publish the notice in a newspaper circulating generally in the part.

(4) The suspension, or (where relevant) the cancellation of the suspension, takes effect immediately after the Commonwealth Gazette notice is published under subsection (3).

(5) This section applies despite section 271.

(6) In this section—

relevant participating jurisdiction, for a work and rest hours exemption (notice), means a participating jurisdiction in which the whole or part of an area or route to which the exemption applies is situated.