Regulator revokes Queensland class 3 heavy vehicle concessional mass exemption notice

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has cancelled the Queensland Class 3 Heavy Vehicle Additional Concessional Mass Limits Exemption Notice 2024 (No.1), ending the additional concessional mass limits arrangement that class 3 heavy vehicles had operated under in Queensland. The revocation was published as a government notice, C2026G00711, in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of 30 October 2026, and the cancellation comes into force 28 days after that date.

The instrument is a single-page notice issued under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and appears in the Government Notices section of the Gazette, alongside other Commonwealth regulatory and licensing announcements. Its stated object is narrow: “This notice revokes the Queensland Class 3 Heavy Vehicle Additional Concessional Mass Limits Exemption Notice 2024 (No.1).”

What the notice does

Section 1, headed “Purpose”, repeats that the notice revokes the 2024 Queensland instrument. Section 5, “Revocation”, sets out the operative provision in a single item, cancelling the Queensland Class 3 Heavy Vehicle Additional Concessional Mass Limits Exemption Notice 2024 (No.1) as an HVNL exemption.

The notice expressly cites its authorising provision: paragraph (a) of section 23 of Schedule 1 to the Heavy Vehicle National Law, described in the text as the “Regulator’s power to amend or repeal instrument”. The revocation is therefore an exercise of the Regulator’s own instrument-management power rather than a decision of a court or a minister.

Timetable and formal steps

The notice divides its own effect into two dates, which operators will need to separate:

• 30 October 2026 — the notice takes effect and is registered in the Gazette as C2026G00711.
• 28 days after that day, 27 November 2026 — the cancellation of the 2024 exemption comes into force.
• Section 4 gives the instrument its official citation: the Notice of Revocation – Queensland Class 3 Heavy Vehicle Additional Concessional Mass Limits Exemption Notice 2024 (No.1).

The staggered structure means the revocation notice exists on the statute book from 30 October, but the exemption it targets continues to operate for a further four weeks before lapsing.

Signatory and same-day context

The notice is signed by Jose Arredondo, Manager Network Access Policy at the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, which is the body that administers the HVNL exemption framework and issues class 3 notices nationally.

The text does not state reasons for the cancellation and does not announce a replacement Queensland class 3 instrument in the same document. On the same date, the Gazette carried a separate class 3 instrument from the same regulator, the South Australia Class 3 Grain Transport Mass Exemption Notice 2026 (No.3), made under section 117 of the HVNL, commencing 30 October 2026 and expiring 31 July 2031, which revokes and replaces the earlier South Australia notice of the same series. The Regulator is thus continuing to grant new class 3 mass exemptions elsewhere while withdrawing the Queensland additional concession.

What changes for operators

For Queensland operators of class 3 heavy vehicles that were relying on the additional concessional mass limits, the practical deadline is 27 November 2026. From that date the exemption ceases to have effect, and the additional mass allowances it authorised fall away, leaving the prescribed mass requirements of the Heavy Vehicle National Law as the operative baseline unless another exemption or approval applies to the vehicle or task.

Because the notice supplies no reasons, carriers affected by the change have no published rationale in the Gazette itself to work from, and access to any replacement arrangement would depend on a separate instrument or approval. The revocation is nonetheless a formal, dated and citable regulatory change: the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of 30 October 2026 is the authoritative record of when the 2024 Queensland concession stops running.

Source: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, C2026G00711, 30 October 2026, Government Notices, p. 1 (official reference: C2026G00711).