Victorian Numbered Acts

ROAD SAFETY AMENDMENT (OPERATOR ONUS) ACT 2012 (NO. 75 OF 2012) - SECT 6

    (1)     In section 84BC(4) of the Road Safety Act 1986 for "A person" substitute "A natural person".

    (2)     After section 84BC(4) of the Road Safety Act 1986 insert —

    "(5)     A body corporate that is guilty of an offence by force of this section is liable to—

        (a)     if the provision of the Act or legislative instrument creating the offence applies a higher penalty to a body corporate found guilty of the offence—that higher penalty; or

        (b)     in any other case—the same penalty as that to which the person who was the driver, or in charge, as the case requires, of the motor vehicle or trailer at the time of the offence would be liable.".