(1) A person must not drive a motor vehicle carrying a placard load in a
tunnel that has a sign (a
"placard load prohibited sign" ) complying with subsection (2) at or before
the entrance to the tunnel.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—
(a) if the
contravention results in harm to a person, property or the environment—200
penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment; or
(b) a
placard load prohibited sign at or before the entrance to a tunnel is taken to
be clearly visible to a person entering the tunnel; and
(c) a motor vehicle
is proved to have been driven in a tunnel if there is evidence, in the form of
an image or video made by a photographic detection device, of—
(i) the motor
vehicle facing the tunnel on the entry road for the tunnel; or
(ii) the motor
vehicle facing away from the tunnel on the exit road from the tunnel.
(4) For
subsection (3) (a) , it is immaterial whether an image or video of a motor
vehicle showing a placard or a thing purporting to be a placard—
(a) is in
colour or black and white; or
(b) shows the dimensions of the placard or the
thing purporting to be a placard.
(5) Also, for a proceeding for an offence
against subsection (1) , evidence, in the form of an image or video made by a
photographic detection device, of a trailer at a place is taken to be evidence
of a motor vehicle including the trailer at the place.
(6) In this section—
"entry road" , to a tunnel, means the part of a road leading into the tunnel
after the last exit from the road before the tunnel.
"exit road" , from a tunnel, means the part of a road leading out of the
tunnel before the first exit from the road after the tunnel.
"placard" means a placard required under this Act or another Act, or by a
condition of a licence or other authority granted under an Act, to be used in
transporting dangerous goods, explosives or radioactive substances.