New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) ACT 2005 - SECT 48

48 Detention of vehicles

(cf Roads Act, s 232)

(1) This section applies if a direction is given under this Division.

(2) An authorised officer may detain the vehicle or combination the subject of the direction until specified breaches of mass, dimension or load restraint requirements are rectified.

(3) It is the duty of an authorised officer by whom a vehicle is detained under this section:

(a) to take all reasonable steps to promptly inform the driver of the vehicle, and any other person that the authorised officer considers should be informed, of where the vehicle is detained, and

(b) to ensure that access to the vehicle is not unreasonably withheld from any person entitled to access.

(4) A person must not, without the consent of an authorised officer, remove a detained vehicle from the place where it is for the time being located.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.