Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT) ACT 1999 - SECT 42

    (1)     A regulation may make provision in relation to the regulation or prohibition of the parking of vehicles (including pay parking), and parked or stopped vehicles, on roads, road related areas and other places, including provision about the following:

        (a)     the Territory and other entities establishing and operating pay parking schemes;

        (b)     the Territory and other entities fixing and collecting parking fees, and the application of parking fees by the collector of the fees and the payments to be made to the road transport authority;

        (c)     allocating the costs for pay parking schemes;

        (d)     providing pay parking on a common payment basis;

        (e)     installing and operating devices used for pay parking;

        (f)     the road transport authority issuing guidelines for pay parking schemes and the legal effect of the guidelines;

        (g)     the road transport authority granting approvals for the establishment and operation of pay parking schemes;

        (h)     resolving disputes about pay parking;

              (i)     the powers of police officers and authorised people to remove vehicles parked or stopped in parking spaces and to close parking spaces;

        (j)     parking vehicles on residential land, including for heavy vehicles—

              (i)     prescribing the circumstances in which the road transport authority may enter residential land; and

              (ii)     prescribing the circumstances in which warrants may be issued for residential land; and

              (iii)     prescribing maximum penalties of not more than 20 penalty units for each day a person contravenes a regulation in relation to the parking of a vehicle on residential land, including the day of a conviction for the contravention or a later day.

    (2)     In particular, a regulation may make provision in relation to the powers that may be exercised by a police officer or an authorised person, who enters land under a regulation made for subsection (1) (j), including, for example, requiring a person in or on the land—

        (a)     to give the police officer or authorised person information relevant to the exercise of his or her powers in relation to the land; or

        (b)     to produce to the police officer or authorised person a document containing information relevant to the exercise of his or her powers in relation to the land.

    (3)     In this section:

"residential land" means land leased for residential purposes.