Queensland Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW ACT 2012 - SECT 5

5 Exclusion of legislation of this jurisdiction

(1) The following Acts of this jurisdiction do not apply to the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) or to the instruments made under that Law, other than to the extent provided for in subsections (3) to (6) or section 17 —

(a) the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 ;

(b) the Auditor-General Act 2009 ;

(c) the Financial Accountability Act 2009 ;

(d) the Information Privacy Act 2009 ;

(e) the Public Records Act 2002 ;

(f) the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994 ;

(g) the Public Sector Act 2022 ;

(h) the Right to Information Act 2009 ;

(i) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982 ;

(j) the Statutory Instruments Act 1992 .

(2) Also, the Legislative Standards Act 1992 does not apply to a regulation made under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) , other than to the extent provided for in section 17 .

(3) The Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 20C applies to the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) and instruments made under that Law.

(4) The Auditor-General Act 2009 applies to the extent provided for in the national regulations under the Heavy Vehicle National Law.

Note—

See the Heavy Vehicle National Law , sections 693 and 730 .

(5) The Act s mentioned subsection (1) (d) , (e) and (h) apply to the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) , and to the instruments made under that Law, in the way provided by section 696 of the Law .

(6) The Act s mentioned in subsection (1) (b) to (i) apply to an entity of the State exercising functions under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) .

(7) To remove any doubt, it is declared that—

(a) subsection (1) (a) does not limit the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 to the local application provisions of this Act; and

Example—

The terms ‘magistrate’ in section 14 and ‘QCAT’ in sections 10 and 36 take their meaning from the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , schedule 1 .

(b) subsection (1) (j) does not limit the application of the Statutory Instruments Act 1992 to a regulation made under the local application provisions of this Act.