{"id":23821,"date":"2020-05-25T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2024-12-30T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T08:57:37","slug":"when-doesnt-the-dangerous-goods-legislation-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/when-doesnt-the-dangerous-goods-legislation-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"When doesn&#8217;t the Dangerous Goods legislation apply?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Land Transport Rule: Dangerous Goods 2005 governs the carriage of dangerous goods in New Zealand, but in some cases, certain services are not required to abide by the Rule &#8211; that is, the driver doesn&#8217;t need to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/course\/dangerous-goods-d-endorsement\/\">D endorsement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These circumstances could be because the dangerous goods being carried are used to power the vehicle or equipment on that vehicle. There are times when certain services such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police.govt.nz\/\">Police<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzdf.mil.nz\/nzdf\/\">NZDF<\/a> are exempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though\nthe services may find themselves exempt in some areas of the Rule, they still\nhave a responsibility to carry and secure the dangerous goods, to ensure safety\nand to avoid damage to the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Rule doesn\u2019t apply to certain dangerous goods:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Required for the motive power or control of the vehicle and are contained within the fuel or electrical or control systems, for example, diesel in a fuel tank and batteries in the engine compartment; or<\/li><li>Required for the operation of ancillary equipment and are contained within the fuel or electrical systems, for example, fuel for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/course\/sideloader-training\/\">sideloader<\/a>, truck-mounted crane or refrigeration equipment; or<\/li><li>Required for the operation of ancillary equipment on the vehicle and are an integral part of the equipment and not the load, for example, fire extinguishers, seat belt tensioners; or<\/li><li>Domestic rubbish transported for disposal in accordance with territorial authority requirements, for example, a waste collection service that collects household waste that could include mixed dangerous goods; or<\/li><li>Goods transported in an emergency situation, under the direction of dangerous goods enforcement officers or emergency services personnel; or<\/li><li>Goods transported by a member of the NZ Defence Force, a police officer or an employee of the crown if<ul><li>Goods transported for reasons of national security or in the interests of the safety and health of any members of the public or when carrying out training exercises for emergencies; and<\/li><li>a Dangerous Goods declaration and emergency services response information are located in the vehicle where they would be readily available in an emergency; or<\/li><li>animal waste discharged from animals while being transported on the vehicle<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Land Transport Rule: Dangerous Goods 2005 governs the carriage of dangerous goods in New Zealand, but in some cases, certain services are not required to abide by the Rule &#8211; that is, the driver doesn&#8217;t need to have a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/when-doesnt-the-dangerous-goods-legislation-apply\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangerous-goods","tag-dangerous-goods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32763,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions\/32763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}