Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The Criminal Code, section 24 does not apply to a person charged with any of the following offences—
(a) an offence against section 53B(2), (3), (4) or (5), 53C(1) or (2), 57B(2) or 162D(1) if the person charged has the benefit of the reasonable steps defence;
(b) an offence against a fatigue management regulation that may be committed by the person in control of a fatigue regulated heavy vehicle driving the vehicle while impaired by fatigue;
(c) an offence against a fatigue management regulation that may be committed by a person failing to take reasonable steps to ensure another person does not drive a fatigue regulated heavy vehicle in a contravening way;
(d) an offence against a fatigue management regulation in relation to which the person charged has the benefit of the reasonable steps defence within the meaning given by the regulation;
(e) an offence—
(i) that is committed by a person because there has been a contravention of a mass requirement, dimension requirement, loading requirement, or container weight declaration requirement, for a heavy vehicle; and
(ii) in relation to which the person charged has the benefit of the reasonable steps defence within the meaning given by the transport Act imposing the requirement;
(f) an offence against section 163AD, 163AE, 163AF, 163AG, 163AH, 163AI, 163AL or 163AM.
(2) For subsection (1)(c), a person failing to take reasonable steps to ensure another person does not drive a fatigue regulated heavy vehicle in a contravening way includes—
(a) the person failing to take reasonable steps to ensure the other person does not drive in that way; and
(b) the person failing to take reasonable steps to ensure the person's activities, or anything arising out of the person's activities, do not—
(i) cause the other person to drive in a contravening way; or
(ii) result in the other person driving in a contravening way; or
(iii) encourage or provide an incentive for the other person to drive in a contravening way.
(3) In this section—
container weight declaration requirement, for a heavy vehicle, means a requirement of a transport Act relating to a freight container loaded on the vehicle being accompanied by a container weight declaration or a container weight declaration complying with particular requirements, including, for example, the following—
(a) a requirement that a person not permit another person to transport a freight container by using a heavy vehicle on a road in Queensland unless the other person has been provided with a container weight declaration complying with particular requirements;
(b) a requirement that a person not drive a heavy vehicle on which a freight container is loaded on a road in Queensland unless the person has a container weight declaration complying with particular requirements.