TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 48A
Further power to require personal details for exercising power in relation to transport of dangerous goods
TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 48A
Further power to require personal details for exercising power in relation to transport of dangerous goods
48A Further power to require personal details for exercising power in relation
to transport of dangerous goods
(c) an authorised officer
reasonably suspects a person is or may be the driver or other person in
control of a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle that has or may have been
involved in an incident involving injury to, or death of, a person or damage
to property; or
(2) The officer
may require the person to state the person’s personal details.
(3) When
making the requirement, the officer must warn the person it is an offence to
fail to state the person’s personal details, unless the person has a
reasonable excuse.
(4) The officer may require the person to give evidence of
the correctness of the stated personal details if the officer reasonably
suspects the stated personal details are false or misleading.
(5) A person must comply with a requirement under subsection (2)
or (4) , unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Penalty—
Maximum
penalty—45 penalty units.
(6) Without limiting what may be a reasonable
excuse for subsection (5) , in a proceeding for an offence of contravening a
requirement made under subsection (2) to state a business address, it is a
defence if the person charged with the offence proves the person did not have
a business address.
(7) A person does not commit an offence against
subsection (5) if—
(b) the person is
not proved to have committed the offence.
(8) In this section—
"dangerous goods offence" means an offence against this Act that involves or
relates to the transport of dangerous goods, other than a vehicle offence or
an offence against the Queensland Road Rules .
"personal details" , of a person, means 1 or more of the following—
(a) the
person’s full name;
(b) the person’s date of birth;
(c) the address
where the person is living;
(d) the address where the person usually lives;
(e) the person’s business address.
"vehicle offence" means an offence against a transport Act that involves or
relates to a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle, other than an offence against
the Queensland Road Rules .