South Australia

Road Traffic (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006

A Bill For

An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961.

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961

4 Amendment of section 79B—Provisions applying where certain offences are detected by photographic detection devices

5 Insertion of section 88

88 Distance to be kept while overtaking cyclists

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2006.

2—Commencement

This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3—Amendment provisions

In this Act a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961

4—Amendment of section 79B—Provisions applying where certain offences are detected by photographic detection devices

(1) Section 79B—after subsection (9a) insert:

(9b) Where a photographic detection device is operated for the purpose of obtaining evidence of the commission of a speeding offence by a driver of a vehicle proceeding in a particular direction on a portion of road, a person engaged in the setting up or operation of the device must place—

(a) adjacent to the carriageway of the road; and

(b) before the point at which the device is being operated (but not less than the prescribed distance before that point); and

(c) so as to be clearly visible to a driver of a vehicle proceeding in that direction,

a sign approved by the Minister to warn such a driver that he or she is passing through a portion of road in relation to which a photographic detection device (however described) is being operated.

(2) Section 79B(10)(a)(ii)—after "devices" insert:

and the placement of warning signs

(3) Section 79B(10)(b)(ii)—after "devices" insert:

and the placement of warning signs

5—Insertion of section 88

After section 87 insert:

88—Distance to be kept while overtaking cyclists

A person driving a motor vehicle must keep the vehicle at a distance of not less than 1 metre from the side of a bicycle that the person is overtaking.