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Committee's report

The committee tabled its Report No. 4, 56th Parliament, Heavy Vehicle National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 on 20 April 2018. The Bill was passed with amendment by the Queensland Parliament on 13 June 2018.

The Bill

On 15 February 2018 the Hon Mark Bailey MP, Minister for Transport and Main Roads introduced the Heavy Vehicle National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Transport and Public Works Committee for detailed consideration.  

The explanatory notes state the Bill has the purpose of:

• Creating a positive due diligence obligation on executive officers that will apply to safety related offences and to require the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) to maintain a database of heavy vehicles
• Developing a national operator fleet data set of registered heavy vehicles
• Allowing Queensland to continue performing registration related functions for heavy vehicles beyond 1 July 2018
• Providing a one-off exemption from vehicle registration duty for heavy vehicles transitioning from the Federal Interstate Registration Scheme to the Queensland registration scheme
• Minor/technical changes resulting from the maintenance process for the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) that remove unnecessary administrative or regulatory burdens
• Amending the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (TORUM Act) and the Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994 (TPC Act) to improve road safety by:
• Increasing penalties for driving offences involving death or grievous bodily harm
• Allowing a registered operator of a vehicle to be notified of offences committed in their vehicle by another person
• Allowing a police officer who conducts a roadside test for drug driving to also conduct any subsequent saliva analysis
• Making amendments relating to the duties of drivers involved in crashes
• Improving customer identification processes for the learner licence online training and assessment program (PrepL)

Timeline

Submissions closed:     22 March 2018 - see "view submissions" tab above
Public briefing:             5 March 2018 - broadcast - transcript
Public hearing:             4 April 2018 - broadcast - transcript - transcript clarification
Report tabled:              20 April 2018 - report