110 National regulations may prescribe loading requirements
(1) The national regulations may prescribe requirements (the
loading requirements) about securing a load on a heavy
vehicle or a component of a heavy vehicle.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the loading requirements may
include requirements about the restraint or positioning of a
load or any part of it on a motor vehicle or trailer.
111 Compliance with loading requirements
(1) A person must not drive on a road a heavy vehicle that does
not, or whose load does not, comply with the loading
requirements applying to the vehicle.
Maximum penalty—
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Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland)
Chapter 4 Vehicle operations—mass, dimension and loading
Part 4.4 Loading requirements
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(a) for a minor risk breach—$3000; or
(b) for a substantial risk breach—$5000; or
(c) for a severe risk breach—$10000.
(2) A person charged with an offence against subsection (1) does
not have the benefit of the mistake of fact defence for the
offence.
(3) However, in a proceeding for an offence against
subsection (1), the person charged has the benefit of the
reasonable steps defence for the offence.