South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts12—Exemption for certain trailers, agricultural implements and
agricultural machines
(1) An unregistered
trailer, agricultural implement or prescribed agricultural machine may be
towed on roads by a tractor or agricultural machine that is conditionally
registered under section 25.
(2) An unregistered
agricultural implement or agricultural machine may be towed on roads by a
registered motor vehicle.
(2a) Subject to
subsection (2b), a prescribed agricultural machine may be driven on roads
without registration or insurance under Part 4.
(2b) A prescribed
agricultural machine must not be driven without registration or insurance
under Part 4 on the carriageway of a road unless—
(a) the
prescribed agricultural machine is driven only—
(i)
to move the machine across the carriageway by the
shortest possible route; or
(ii)
to move the machine from a point of unloading to a
worksite by the shortest possible route; or
(iii)
to enable the machine to perform on the carriageway a
special function that the machine is designed to perform; and
(b)
there is in force a policy of public liability insurance indemnifying the
owner and any authorised driver of the prescribed agricultural machine in an
amount of at least five million dollars in relation to death or bodily injury
caused by, or arising out of, the use of the prescribed agricultural machine
on a road.
(2c) A person who
drives a prescribed agricultural machine on a road without registration or
insurance under Part 4 as authorised by this section must, if requested by a
police officer to do so, produce evidence of the person's public liability
insurance either—
(a)
forthwith to the police officer who made the request; or
(b)
within 48 hours after the making of the request, at a police station
conveniently located for the driver, specified by the police officer at the
time of making the request.
Maximum penalty: $750.
(3) While a trailer,
agricultural implement or agricultural machine is on a road and is being
towed, or is on a road and is connected to a vehicle for towing, as authorised
under this section, the policy of insurance in force under Part 4 in relation
to the towing vehicle is to be taken to extend in coverage so that it is also
in force and applies in relation to the trailer, agricultural implement or
agricultural machine and its owner and driver and any passenger in or on it.
(4) In this
section—
"prescribed agricultural machine" means an agricultural machine that—
(a) is
designed mainly for use outside public road systems; and
(b) when
driven by its own automotive power, is capable of a speed not exceeding 7
kilometres per hour.