NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 43

The requirement for bolster attachments on existing vehicles to be in compliance with the Bolster Attachment Code of Practice (issue 27 November 1998) by 1 April 2001, published in the New Zealand Gazette, June 10 1999, is hereby revoked. This revocation is conditional. Bolster attachments and load retention devices on existing vehicles and on new vehicles whose bolster attachments are exempted by notice in the New Zealand Gazette from compliance with any version of the Bolster Attachment Code, must be in compliance with the requirements specified in Schedule 3. Bolster attachments certified to be in compliance with the Bolster Attachment Code (issue 27 November 1998) are deemed to be in compliance with the Bolster Attachment Code (issue 1 May 2001).

Bolster attachments on vehicles fitted with convertible bolsters for the carriage of long logs must comply with the Bolster Attachment Code (issue May 1 2001), unless certified by a manufacturer of logging vehicles who is also a manufacturing certifier, or by a Bolster Attachment Code certifying engineer, to be in accordance with the conditions of Schedule 4.

Schedule 1

Bolster Attachment Code (issue 1 May 2001) issued on behalf of the Log Transport Safety Committee.

Schedule 2

1 May 2001.

Schedule 3

(a) Logging trailers equipped with load cells supporting the attachment of the bolster to the vehicle chassis:

One additional safety chain of 6 tonnes breaking strength (rated strength) per bolster must be applied over the load, attached to certified anchorages on the chassis, in addition to the safety chain attached to each bolster in accordance with normal industry practice. This requirement is a continuation of the instruction issued by the Land Transport Safety Authority in its Factsheet dated 31 July 1997. When belly chains are required by the Truck Loading Code, the above additional safety chain is still required.

(b) All logging vehicles:

Bolsters and their attachments on all logging vehicles are to be subjected to a more detailed inspection for ongoing security as part of the requirements for these vehicles to be issued with a Certificate of Fitness (CoF). Details will be issued in a revision to the Heavy Vehicle Safety Inspection Guide and the inspection criteria will be applied at the first Certificate of Fitness inspection for each vehicle subsequent to 1 November 2001.

Schedule 4

Bolster attachments for long log logging vehicles fitted with convertible bolsters are exempted from compliance with a version of the Bolster Attachment Code, provided that the manufacturer (who must also be a manufacturing certifier) or a Bolster Attachment Code certifying engineer has evidence available for audit by the Land Transport Safety Authority that the particular design of the bolster attachments has successfully completed, on a single vehicle, 250,000 kilometres of service without any indication of cracking due to fatigue or other significant failure. A certificate to this effect must be presented to the Transport Service Delivery Agent at the time of first presentation of the vehicle for registration.

Signed at Wellington this 23rd day of April 2001.

P. WARING, acting under authority sub-delegated to me by way of an instrument of delegation dated 1 March 1999.

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Traffic Regulations 1976

Transport Act 1962

The Traffic (Taupo District) Notice 2001

Pursuant to section 52 of the Transport Act 1962 and Regulation 21 (2) of the Traffic Regulations 1976, and pursuant to an authority sub-delegated to me by the Director of Land Transport Safety dated 18 January 2001, I, Robert Albert Gibson, Acting Manager, Safer Roads, give the following notice.

Notice

1. This notice may be cited as the Traffic (Taupo District) Notice 2001.

2. Those localities and roads within markings identified in the legend of and appearing on the plan numbered LT0116/1, entitled “Speed Restrictions in Taupo District at Taupo” and held by the Head Office of the Land Transport Safety Authority, are declared to be closely populated localities at all times, pursuant to section 52 (1) (c) of the Transport Act 1962; except where declared:

   (a) 70 kilometres an hour speed limit areas, pursuant to Regulation 21 (2) of the Traffic Regulations 76; or

   (b) closely populated localities for specified parts of any year, pursuant to section 52 (1) (c) of the Transport Act 1962, and 70 kilometres an hour speed limit areas, pursuant to Regulation 21 (2) of the Traffic Regulations 1976, for the remainder of the same year;

   as may be ascertained from the legend. The plan and legend are hereby incorporated into this notice.

3. Those parts of the First, Second, Third and Fifth Schedules that relate to Taupo Town within Taupo District in the following notice are revoked:

   The Traffic (Taupo District) Notice No. 1, 1992*.

Signed at Wellington this 20th day of April 2001.

R. A. GIBSON, Acting Manager, Safer Roads.

New Zealand Gazette, 17 December 1992, No. 207, page 4520.

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The Traffic (Westland District) Notice No. 2, 2001

Pursuant to sections 52 (1) (c) and 52 (3) of the Transport Act 1962 and Regulation 21 (2) of the Traffic Regulations 1976, and pursuant to an authority sub-delegated to me by the Director of Land Transport Safety dated 18 January 2001, I, Robert Albert Gibson, Acting Manager, Safer Roads, give the following notice.

Notice

1. This Notice may be cited as the Traffic (Westland District) Notice No. 2, 2001.

2. The roads specified in the First Schedule are declared to be closely populated localities for the purposes of section 52 of the Transport Act 1962.

3. The roads specified in the Second Schedule are declared to be 70 kilometres an hour speed limit areas, pursuant to Regulation 21 (2) of the Traffic Regulations 1976.

4. The Traffic (Westland County) Notice No. 1, 1974, dated 10 April 1974*, issued pursuant to the Transport Act 1962, is revoked.

First Schedule

Situated within the Westland District at Okuru:

Johnston Crescent.

Situated within the Westland District at Hannahs Clearing:

Haast-Jackson Bay Road from a point 250 metres measured northerly generally along Haast-Jackson Bay Road from the northern intersection with