Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00739:schedule:3:p24
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00739
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 24/63)
Character Range: 72254–74786

load if the prime contractor knows, or reasonably ought to know, that a marking on the package or unit load about its contents is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty:
 (a) for a package—$500;
 (b) for a unit load—$1,500.
 (3) A prime contractor must not transport goods by road in a package or unit load if the prime contractor knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the package or unit load does not contain dangerous goods but is marked as if it contained dangerous goods.
Penalty:
 (a) for a package—$500;
 (b) for a unit load—$1,500.

Division 2—Placarding

7.6  Meaning of appropriately placarded etc
 (1) For this Division:
 (a) a person placards a load of goods if the person placards a bulk or freight container in which, or a vehicle in or on which, the goods are being, or are to be, transported by road; and
 (b) the placarding of a load of goods includes the placarding of a bulk or freight container in which, and the vehicle in or on which, the goods are being, or are to be, transported by road.
 (2) For this Division, a placard load of dangerous goods is appropriately placarded if the bulk or freight container in which, and the vehicle in or on which, the goods are being, or are to be, transported by road are placarded in accordance with Chapter 7 of the ADG Code.

7.7  Consignor's duties
 (1) A person must not consign a placard load of dangerous goods for transport by road unless the load is appropriately placarded.
Penalty: $3 000.
 (2) A person must not consign a placard load of dangerous goods for transport by road if the placarding of the load is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: $3 000.
 (3) A person must not consign goods for transport by road in a load that does not contain dangerous goods but is placarded as if it were a placard load.
Penalty: $3 000.

7.8  Loader's duties
 (1) A person who loads dangerous goods for transport by road must appropriately placard the load if the person knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the goods are a placard load.
Penalty: $3 000.
 (2) A person who loads a placard load of dangerous goods for transport by road must not placard the load with placarding that the person knows, or reasonably ought to know, is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: $3 000.
 (3) A person who loads goods for transport by road must not placard the load if the person knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the load does not contain dangerous goods.
Penalty: $3 000.

7.9  Prime contractor's duties
 (1) A prime