Queensland Consolidated Regulations Queensland Consolidated Regulations(1) This section applies in relation to the transport in Queensland of a freight container by a heavy vehicle.
(2) The operator must not permit the driver of the heavy vehicle to transport the freight container on a road in Queensland unless the driver has been provided with a complying container weight declaration for the freight container.
Maximum penalty--60 penalty units.
(3) If the freight container is to be transported by another carrier, the operator must not give the freight container to the carrier unless the carrier has been provided with a complying container weight declaration for the freight container (or the prescribed particulars contained in the declaration).
Maximum penalty--60 penalty units.
(4) If the driver does not have the complying container weight declaration when transporting the freight container on a road in Queensland, the operator is taken to have contravened subsection (2) unless the operator establishes that the driver was provided with the declaration.
(5) A person charged with an offence under this section has the benefit of the reasonable steps defence.
(6) In this section--
prescribed particulars, contained in a complying container weight declaration for a freight container, means--
(a) information about the weight of the freight container and its contents; and
(b) the information mentioned in section 21B(a).