Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MOTOR VEHICLES (DIMENSIONS AND MASS) ACT 1990 (NO 13 OF 1990)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      PART I—PRELIMINARY Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Vehicles to which Act applies  
   5.      Application of Act to the Crown  
   6.      Delegation by Registrar  
   7.      Inspectors  
   8.      Identity cards  
   9.      Length of vehicles  
   10.     Width of vehicles  
   11.     Height of vehicles  
   12.     Forward projection  
   13.     Rear overhang  
   14.     Articulated bus—rear overhang of front section  
   15.     Loading space of non-articulated vehicles  
   16.     Semi-trailers—dimensions  
   17.     Required axle groups  
   18.     Steering systems  
   19.     Turning circle  
   20.     Suspension systems  
   21.     Suspension isolating devices  
   22.     Drawbar length  
   23.     PART III—LOADS AND EQUIPMENT Projecting equipment or loads  
   24.     Gross mass  
   25.     Wheel and axle loads  
   26.     Tyre pressure  
   27.     Permits  
   28.     Permits to be issued in respect of certain vehicles  
   29.     Application for permit  
   30.     Issue of permit subject to conditions  
   31.     Factors related to issue of permit  
   32.     PART V—OFFENCES Offences related to mass  
   33.     Contravention of Part II or section 23 or 26  
   34.     Use of trailer with articulated vehicle  
   35.     Production of permit  
   36.     Failure to comply with permit  
   37.     Offences by owners  
   38.     Offences by persons other than owners or drivers  
   39.     No offence if permit in force  
   40.     Other defences  
   41.     PART VI—INSPECTION OF VEHICLES Inspection of vehicles  
   42.     Certificate of inspection  
   43.     Unattended vehicles  
   44.     Offences related to section 43 notice  
   45.     Directions related to loads  
   46.     Notice of offence  
   47.     Failure to comply with directions  
   48.     Obstruction of inspector  
   49.     Approval of portable weighing devices  
   50.     Evidence of mass  
   51.     Determination of mass or load with approved portable weighing device  
   52.     Certificates to be evidence  
   53.     Interfering with approved portable weighing device  
   54.     PART VIII—MISCELLANEOUS Notice of decisions  
   55.     Review by Administrative Appeals Tribunal  
   56.     Certificates of inspectors to be evidence  
   57.     Determinations  
           SCHEDULE