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South Australia
Road Traffic (Bicycles on Footpaths) Amendment
Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Road
Traffic Act 1961
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic
Act 1961
4Amendment of section
81—Interpretation
5Insertion of sections 98 and 99
98Riding bicycles on
footpaths, shared paths etc
99Installation etc
of no bicycles etc signs by councils without approval of Minister
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Bicycles on Footpaths)
Amendment Act 2016.
This Act will come into operation 2 months after the day on which it
is assented to by the Governor.
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 81—Interpretation
(1) Section 81, before the definition of permissive parking
sign insert:
bicycle has the same meaning as in the
Australian
Road Rules
;
footpath has the same meaning as in the
Australian
Road Rules
;
footpath or shared path speed limit sign means a speed limit
sign that, on or with the sign, has words, symbols or signs (including words,
symbols or signs prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this definition)
indicating that the speed limit sign applies to riders of bicycles on a footpath
or a shared path;
no bicycles road marking has the same meaning as in the
Australian
Road Rules
;
no bicycles sign means—
(a) a sign that is a no bicycles sign for the purposes of the
Australian
Road Rules
; or
(b) a sign displaying the words "no bicycles" or other words or symbols
indicating that riders of bicycles are not permitted on the length of road or in
the area to which the sign applies (and such a sign will be taken to be a no
bicycles sign for the purposes of the
Australian
Road Rules
);
(2) Section 81, after the definition of permissive parking
sign insert:
shared path has the same meaning as in the
Australian
Road Rules
;
speed limit sign means a sign that is a speed limit sign for
the purposes of the
Australian
Road Rules
.
5—Insertion
of sections 98 and 99
Before section 99A insert:
98—Riding bicycles on footpaths, shared paths
etc
(1) A person must not ride a bicycle on a footpath or shared path at a
speed greater than the speed limit applying to the rider for the length of
footpath or shared path on which the rider is riding.
(2) If a footpath or shared path speed limit sign does not apply to a
length of footpath or shared path, the speed limit applying to a rider of a
bicycle on the length of footpath or shared path is 10 kilometres per
hour.
(3) A person must not ride a bicycle on a length of footpath to which a no
bicycles sign, or a no bicycles road marking, applies.
(4) A no bicycles sign, or a no bicycles road marking, applies to a length
of footpath beginning at the sign or marking and ending at the next intersection
(or at any earlier sign indicating that a person is no longer prohibited from
riding a bicycle).
99—Installation etc of no bicycles etc signs by
councils without approval of Minister
(1) A council may, without the approval of the Minister or compliance with
any other requirement of this Act—
(a) install, maintain, alter or operate, or cause to be installed,
maintained, altered or operated—
(i) a footpath or shared path speed limit sign on, above or near a
footpath or shared path that is under the care, control or management of the
council; or
(ii) a no bicycles sign or no bicycles road marking on, above or near a
footpath that is under the care, control or management of the council;
or
(b) remove such a sign or road marking, or cause such a sign or road
marking to be removed,
and such a sign or marking will, despite this Act or any other Act or law,
be taken to have been lawfully so installed, maintained, altered, operated or
removed.
(2) Despite this Act or any other Act or law, the Minister may not alter
or remove, or direct or approve the alteration or removal of—
(a) a footpath or shared path speed limit sign; or
(b) a no bicycles sign or no bicycles road marking,
that is on, above or near a footpath or shared path that is under the care
control or management of a council.