Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 107(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 104.13).
(1) During an operational arrangements period for an event to which this Part applies, a police officer or an authorised officer may move or cause to be moved a vehicle which is parked or left standing or a vessel which is moored, anchored or adrift—
(a) in an event venue or event area, if that vehicle or vessel, as the case requires, is not authorised to be in that venue or area; or
(b) so close to an event venue or event area as to obstruct access to, or egress from, it by vehicles, vessels or pedestrians.
S. 107(2) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 104.13).
(2) During an operational arrangements period for an event to which this Part applies, a police officer or an authorised officer may move, or cause to be moved, a vehicle which is parked or left standing or a vessel which is moored, anchored or adrift in an event venue or an event area if, in the opinion of the police officer or the authorised officer (as the case requires), the vehicle or vessel is—
(a) a danger to other vehicles, vessels or persons in that venue or area; or
(b) causing or likely to cause traffic congestion; or
(c) hindering or obstructing, or likely to hinder or obstruct—
(i) the event or an associated event, activity or program; or
(ii) any activity associated with or ancillary to the event or an associated event, activity or program; or
(iii) access to or egress from any facilities used for the purposes of the event.
(3) Subsection (2) applies whether or not the vehicle or vessel is authorised to be in the event venue or the event area.
S. 107(4) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 104.13).
(4) A police officer acting in accordance with this section may—
(a) enter a vehicle or a vessel using reasonable force, if necessary, for the purpose of conveniently or expeditiously moving it; and
(b) move the vehicle or vessel to the nearest convenient place.
(5) The Chief Commissioner of Police or the event organiser may recover from the owner of a vehicle or vessel moved under this section any reasonable costs incurred in moving it.
(6) In this section, "owner"—
(a) in relation to a vehicle, has the same meaning as it has in Part 7 of the Road Safety Act 1986 ; and
S. 107(6)(b) amended by No. 65/2010 s. 420(Sch. 3 item 10.2).
(b) in relation to a vessel, has the same meaning as it has in section 3(1) of the Marine Safety Act 2010 .
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