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South Australia
Road Traffic (Issue of Free Tickets by Parking
Ticket-Vending Machines) Amendment Bill 2015
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Road
Traffic Act 1961
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic
Act 1961
4Insertion of sections 86 and 86A
86Council may
determine that ticket for parking be obtained without fee
86AParking where
ticket required without payment of fee
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Issue of Free Tickets by
Parking Ticket-Vending Machines) Amendment Act 2015.
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
Part 3, Division 9—before section 82 insert:
81—Interpretation
In this Division, unless the contrary appears—
permissive parking sign means a sign that is a permissive
parking sign for the purposes of the
Australian
Road Rules
.
4—Insertion
of sections 86 and 86A
After section 85 insert:
86—Council may determine that ticket for parking be
obtained without fee
If a council has installed, or determined that it will install, permissive
parking signs to apply to a length of road or an area, the council may (in
addition to any other action that it may be empowered to take by or under this
Act)—
(a) determine that a ticket must be obtained for parking in the length of
road or the area through the operation of parking ticket-vending machines
installed or to be installed in or near the length of road or area without
payment of a fee; or
(b) vary or revoke a determination made under this section.
86A—Parking where ticket required without payment
of fee
(1) This section
applies to a driver who parks in a length of road, or in an area, to which a
permissive parking sign applies if—
(a) information on or with the sign indicates that a ticket must be
obtained through the operation of a parking ticket-vending machine for parking
in the length of road or area; and
(b) information on or with the sign or the machine indicates that the
ticket may be obtained without the payment of a fee.
(2) For the purposes of
subsection (1)
—
(a) if a sign displays the words "FREE PARKING" together with a
requirement (however expressed) for a ticket to be obtained—
(i) the sign will be taken to be a permissive parking sign for the
purposes of the
Australian
Road Rules
to which Part 20 of the Rules applies; and
(ii) the words will be taken to indicate that a ticket must be obtained
through the operation of a parking ticket-vending machine without payment of a
fee;
(b) if a permissive parking sign displays the word "FREE TICKET" or such
other words as may be prescribed by regulation, the words will be taken to
indicate that a ticket must be obtained through the operation of a parking
ticket-vending machine without payment of a fee.
(3) A driver referred to in
subsection (1)
must obtain a ticket from a parking ticket-vending machine in or near the
length of road or area.
Maximum penalty: $1 250.
(4) For the purposes of this section, a driver referred to in
subsection (1)
does not obtain a ticket from a parking ticket-vending machine unless the
driver, on first stopping the vehicle, promptly—
(a) proceeds to a parking ticket-vending machine in or near the length of
road or area; and
(b) obtains a ticket through the operation of the machine; and
(c) complies with any instructions (as to dealing with the ticket or
otherwise) on or with the sign, ticket or machine.