Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 117

117 Use of penalties collected for camera-detected offences

(1) All money collected for penalties imposed for camera-detected offences in excess of the administrative costs of collection must be used for the following purposes—

(a) to fund the development or delivery of programs or initiatives for any of the following—

(i) road safety education and awareness;

(ii) enabling practices and behaviours that improve road safety;

(iii) rehabilitation of persons who have been injured in a road crash;

(b) to fund infrastructure and related technologies to improve the safety of State-controlled roads, with funding to be prioritised using a risk assessment methodology to maximise the reduction in the frequency and severity of road crashes.

(2) In this section—

"road crash" means a collision or incident—

(a) on or adjacent to a road; and

(b) involving a moving vehicle; and

(c) in which a person is killed or injured or property is damaged.

"State-controlled road" means a road or route or part of a road or route declared to be a State-controlled road under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 .