COAG Decision Regulation Impact Statement – Transport and Infrastructure Council
On 6 November 2015, the Transport and Infrastructure Council announced changes to heavy vehicle roadworthiness requirements. The changes introduce primary care of duty provisions on operators, prime contractors and employers to ensure their trucks are safe. The Council has also requested that the National Transport Commission develop a risk based vehicle inspection regime for later consideration. The changes are intended to address safety concerns and economic costs stemming from inconsistent roadworthiness inspections for trucks across jurisdictions. For example New South Wales requires inspections every year, whereas as other states do not. The National Transport Commission prepared a Regulation Impact Statement exploring several options to address this problem, which the Office of Best Practice Regulation assessed as meeting COAG’s best practice regulation requirements.
- Heavy Vehicle Roadworthiness Program Decision RIS [
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- CBA [ 604KB]