Road Vehicle Standards (Classes of Vehicles that are Road Vehicles) Amendment Determination 2023 (Cth)

Road Vehicle Standards (Classes of Vehicles that are Road Vehicles) Amendment Determination 2023

I, Jim Betts, Secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, make the following determination.

Dated               6 October 2023

Jim Betts

Secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Road Vehicle Standards (Classes of Vehicles that are Road Vehicles) Determination 2021 2

1  Name

This instrument is the Road Vehicle Standards (Classes of Vehicles that are Road Vehicles) Amendment Determination 2023.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under paragraph 6(5)(a) of the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Road Vehicle Standards (Classes of Vehicles that are Road Vehicles) Determination 2021

1  Subsection 5(1) (paragraph (b) of the definition of concrete pumper)

Omit ‘is mounted on a rubber-tyred motor vehicle’, substitute ‘is designed to travel on rubber tyres’.

2  Subsection 5(1) (definition of mobile crane)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

mobile crane means a motor vehicle, other than a forklift or rough terrain crane, that:

(a)  is designed to lift a load; and

(b)  is designed to travel on rubber tyres; and

(c)  is capable of travelling at a reasonable speed by road without obstructing the flow of traffic; and

(d)  has a cabin that allows the operator to drive the vehicle between sites; and

(e)  has one or more road-going features.

3  Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

rough terrain crane means a motor vehicle that:

(a)  is designed to lift a load; and

(b)  is designed for off-road use; and

(c)  is designed to travel on rubber tyres; and

(d)  has a cabin that allows the operator to drive the vehicle on site; and

(e)  has a boom projecting more than 5.5 metres in front of a transverse vertical plane through the centre of the steering wheel.