The latest Heavy Vehicle National Law amendment introduces a new unfit-to-drive duty, but the obligations set out in the Master Code extend well beyond the HVNL’s wording with serious practical and legal consequences.
In this webinar Sue Bottrell and Sam Dekker will be joined by Denise Zumpe to examine the amendment through both a legal and practical lens.
They will explore how the new duty interacts with privacy, employment law, workplace processes and existing fitness-for-work frameworks, including areas where the terminology and expectations do not neatly align.
The session will also consider several less-publicised changes, including alternative verdicts, the changing status of improvement notices and their relationship with prosecutions.
Recent cases involving driver fitness will be used to test how these issues may play out in practice.
This is not a high-level overview of the amendments. It is a closer examination of the technical issues, legal intersections and practical questions that businesses will need to work through.