HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW

National Class 2 Supplementary Access (South Australia Floods) Authorisation Notice 2023 (No.1)

1. Purpose

This Notice authorises the access of Class 2 heavy vehicles that are road trains up to 36.5m in length to specified networks in South Australia. The purpose of this Notice is to allow the transport of goods, equipment, machinery, and other materials along specified routes for the purpose of building or maintaining flood mitigation works.

Note: This Notice replaces the previous National Class 2 Supplementary Access (South Australia Floods) Authorisation Notice 2022 (No.2) in the same terms and with the same conditions.

2.       Authorising provision

1)      This Notice is made under the following provisions of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL):

a)      Section 138 – Regulator’s power to authorise use of all or stated categories of class 2 heavy vehicles.

3.       Title

This authorisation Notice may be cited as the National Class 2 Supplementary Access (South Australia Floods) Authorisation Notice 2023 (No.1).

4.       Commencement date

This Notice commences on 13 January 2023.

5.       Expiry date

This Notice expires 13 April 2023.

6.       Definitions

Unless otherwise stated, words and expression used in this Notice have the same

meanings as those in the HVNL and its regulations.

7.       Application

1)      This authorisation Notice applies to a heavy vehicle that meets all of the requirements this section.

2)      This authorisation Notice applies to heavy vehicle that is a class 2 road train that does not exceed 36.5m in length, and that meets the definition of a Type-1 road train under the current version of the National Class 2 Road Train Authorisation Notice.

3)      This authorisation applies to a heavy vehicle that is:

a)      transporting goods, equipment, machinery, and other materials on a route specified in section 9 for the purpose of building or maintaining flood mitigation works; or

b)      making a return journey along a route specified in section 9 after completing a journey under b).

4)      This authorisation Notice only applies to a heavy vehicle operating in the stated areas and on stated routes set out in section 9.

5)      A heavy vehicle to which this section applies is an eligible vehicle.

8.       Authorisation

Subject to the conditions in the Notice, an eligible vehicle is authorised to operate on the areas and routes specified in the section 9.

9.       Condition – Areas and Routes

1)      For the purposes of 142(1)(b) of the HVNL, a network set out in Schedule 1 is a stated area or routes to which this authorisation Notice applies.

2)      An eligible vehicle operating on an area or route must comply with the following conditions relevant to it:

a)      Road conditions pursuant to section 160 of HVNL; and

b)      Travel conditions pursuant to section 161 of the HVNL; and

c)       Vehicle conditions pursuant to section 162 of the HVNL.

10.   Conditions – Compliance with National Class 2 Road Train Authorisation Notice

An eligible vehicle must comply with any conditions that may apply to that combination under the current version of the National Class 2 Road Train Authorisation Notice.

Brayden Soo

Executive Director (Freight and Supply Chain Productivity)

National Heavy Vehicle Regulator

Schedule 1 States Routes and Areas

1. Condition – Routes

1)      This section sets out networks that are routes for the purpose of section 9 of this Notice.

2)      An eligible vehicle may operate on the following networks published on the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s Route Planner:

Route ID 155KO-1 v8

Route ID 155KO-1 v9 

Note: the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s Route Planner is published on the Regulator’s website.