Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00392:schedule:2:p29
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00392
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 29/84)
Character Range: 231477–234119

dangerous goods of Packing Group I; or
 (c) the load contains dangerous goods of Category A of UN Division 6.2; or
 (d) the load contains dangerous goods of UN Division 6.2 (other than Category A) that have an aggregate quantity of 10 or more; or
 (e) the load contains dangerous goods that have an aggregate quantity of 1 000 or more.
 (2) However, a retail distribution load that complies with Chapter 7.3 of the ADG Code is not a load that must be placarded.

5.3.2  Meaning of appropriately placarded
 (1) A person placards a load of dangerous goods if the person affixes, stencils, prints or places a label on a transport unit in or on which the goods are being, or are to be, transported.
 (2) In this Division, a placard load is appropriately placarded if the transport unit in or on which the dangerous goods are being, or are to be, transported is placarded in accordance with Chapter 5.3 of the ADG Code. (7.6, amd)

5.3.3  Consignor's duties
 (1) A person must not consign a placard load for transport if the load is not appropriately placarded.
Offence provision.
 (2) A person must not consign a placard load for transport if the placarding of the load is false or misleading in a material particular.
Offence provision.
 (3) A person must not consign goods for transport in a load that does not contain dangerous goods but is placarded as if it were a placard load.
Offence provision.   (7.7, amd/2)

5.3.4  Loader's duties
 (1) A person who loads dangerous goods for transport must ensure that the load is appropriately placarded, if the person knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the goods are a placard load.
Offence provision.
 (2) A person who loads a placard load for transport must not placard the load with placarding that the person knows, or reasonably ought to know, is false or misleading in a material particular.
Offence provision.    (7.8)
 (3) A person who loads goods for transport must not placard the load if the person knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the load does not contain dangerous goods.
Offence provision.

5.3.5  Prime contractor's and rail operator's duties
 (1) A prime contractor or rail operator must not transport dangerous goods if the prime contractor or rail operator knows, or reasonably ought to know, that:
 (a) the goods are a placard load; and
 (b) the load is not appropriately placarded.
Offence provision.
 (2) A prime contractor or rail operator must not transport a placard load if the prime contractor or rail operator knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the placarding of the load is false or misleading in a material particular.
Offence provision.
 (3) A prime