T-12, r. 7 - Regulation respecting the requirements applicable to shipping documents

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chapter T-12, r. 7
Regulation respecting the requirements applicable to shipping documents
Transport Act
(chapter T-12, s. 5).
O.C. 61-2001; O.C. 427-2015, s. 1.
DIVISION I
INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL
1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the expressions “owner of heavy vehicles”, “operator of heavy vehicles”, “heavy vehicle” and “transport service intermediary” have the meaning given to them in the Act respecting owners, operators and drivers of heavy vehicles (chapter P-30.3), the terms “receiver”, “shipper” and “carrier” have the meaning given to them in the Civil Code and the term “consignee” means the person who receives the goods on deposit.
O.C. 61-2001, s. 1.
2. An operator of heavy vehicles shall keep for not less than 2 years copies of the shipping documents referred to in this Regulation.
Where the operator keeps the documents in electronic form, he shall make sure that the information contained in those documents cannot be modified.
O.C. 61-2001, s. 2; O.C. 427-2015, s. 2.
DIVISION II
SHIPPING DOCUMENTS
3. Documents concerning the shipping of goods shall be kept in the heavy vehicle used for the transportation of those goods, for remuneration and for the account of others, from their loading to their delivery.
Shipping documents may consist of several pieces containing the information required under section 4 or may be in the form of a slip intended to gather such information.
Such information may be kept in electronic form insofar as it may be reproduced in paper form, upon request of a peace officer or an inspector, during a road check operation.
No shipping document is required for the bulk transportation of materials identified in section 1 of the Regulation respecting the brokerage of bulk trucking services (chapter T-12, r. 4), for the transportation of goods by bus or for the transportation of waste or recyclable materials for a municipality.
The foregoing also applies if the vehicle has a marking that meets the conditions provided for in section 2.2 of the Regulation respecting the Act respecting owners, operators and drivers of heavy vehicles (chapter P-30.3, r. 1).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 3; O.C. 427-2015, s. 3.
4. Shipping documents shall contain the following minimum provisions:
(1)  the quantity and description of the goods;
(2)  (paragraph revoked);
(3)  the shipper’s name, the name of any other person who, where applicable, entrusted the goods to the operator of the heavy vehicle responsible for their transportation and the name of the receiver or consignee;
(4)  the name of the operator who provides the transportation and his identification number in the Registre des propriétaires et des exploitants de véhicules lourds referred to in section 4 of the Act respecting owners, operators and drivers of heavy vehicles (chapter P-30.3), the date on which the goods were entrusted to him, the place where they were entrusted to him and his destination;
(5)  the name and identification number, in the list referred to in section 15 of that Act, of the transport service intermediary involved in the organization of the transportation provided by the operator;
(6)  (paragraph revoked).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 4; O.C. 427-2015, s. 4.
DIVISION III
(Implicitly revoked by 2005, chapter 39, s. 13)
§ 1.  — 
(Implicitly revoked by 2005, chapter 39, s. 13)
5. (Implicitly revoked by 2005, chapter 39, s. 13).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 5.
§ 2.  — 
(Implicitly revoked by 2005, chapter 39, s. 13)
6. (Implicitly revoked by 2005, chapter 39, s. 13).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 6.
DIVISION IV
(Revoked)
O.C. 61-2001, Div. IV; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
§ 1.  — 
(Revoked)
O.C. 61-2001, Sd. 1; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
7. (Revoked).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 7; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
§ 2.  — 
(Revoked)
O.C. 61-2001, Sd. 2; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
8. (Revoked).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 8; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
DIVISION V
(Revoked)
O.C. 61-2001, Div. V; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
9. (Revoked).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 9; O.C. 427-2015, s. 5.
DIVISION VI
PENAL
10. Violation of the provisions of section 2 by an operator of heavy vehicles constitutes an offence punishable by a fine of $125 to $375.
O.C. 61-2001, s. 10.
11. Violation of the provisions of the first paragraph of section 3 constitutes an offence punishable by a fine of $125 to $375 on the driver of the heavy vehicle and by a fine of $250 to $750 on the carrier who acts as the operator and, where applicable, on the operator of the heavy vehicle who was substituted for the operator who entered into the transportation contract.
O.C. 61-2001, s. 11.
12. Violation of the provisions of section 4 constitutes an offence punishable by a fine of $125 to $375 on the operator of the heavy vehicle who uses shipping documents that do not include all the provisions referred to in section 4.
O.C. 61-2001, s. 12; O.C. 427-2015, s. 6.
13. (Revoked).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 13; O.C. 427-2015, s. 7.
14. (Amendment integrated into the Trucking Regulation (O.C. 47-88, 88-01-13)).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 14.
15. (Omitted).
O.C. 61-2001, s. 15.
REFERENCES
O.C. 61-2001, 2001 G.0. 2, 1132
O.C. 427-2015, 2015 G.O. 2, 1000