Queensland Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK ACT 2011 No. 32 - SECT 175

(1) A network chief executive may erect or display on, or at or near any vehicular entrance to, health services land, a notice (a regulatory notice) regulating the driving, parking or standing of vehicles on the land, including, for example—

(a) fixing a maximum speed limit; or

(b) indicating a pedestrian crossing; or

(c) indicating a place where the driving, parking or standing of a vehicle is restricted or prohibited.

(2) A person on health services land must comply with a regulatory notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with it.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) A regulatory notice—

(a) must state the limits of the area to which the notice applies; and

(b) may state that a contravention of the notice is an offence against this Act and the penalty for the offence.

(4) Without limiting subsection (1), a network chief executive may erect or display regulatory notices in the form of official traffic signs.

(5) Evidence that a regulatory notice was erected or displayed at a place mentioned in subsection (1) is evidence that the notice was erected or displayed by the network chief executive.

(6) A regulatory notice erected or displayed under this section must be easily visible to passers-by.