Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) A works manager, or a person acting on behalf of a works manager, may, on a road or road related area for the purpose of authorised works on that road or road related area, erect, display, place, remove or alter—
(a) a works advisory device; or
(b) a hand-held stop sign; or
(c) a works zone sign; or
(d) a temporary works speed-limit sign; or
(e) with the authority of VicRoads, any other traffic control device.
Example
A works manager may, for the purposes of carrying out authorised works on a road to which a 60 km/h speed-limit normally applies, erect a 40 km/h speed-limit sign at the start of the works area and a 60 km/h speed-limit sign at the end of the works area.
Note
The term temporary works speed-limit sign is defined in regulation 4.
(2) A works manager, or a person acting on behalf of a works manager, may erect, display, place, remove or alter a traffic control device referred to in subregulation (1) only if a description of, or reference to, that device is included in the traffic management plan for the works.
(3) In this regulation—
"authorised works" means works on a road or road related area—
(a) that are carried out by or on behalf of a relevant service provider in connection with the installation, inspection, maintenance or repair of that service provider's infrastructure in that road or road related area; and
(b) that are—
(i) works for which the coordinating road authority for that road or road related area has given consent under clause 16(5) of Schedule 7 to Road Management Act 2004 ; or
(ii) works to which section 63(1) of the Road Management Act 2004 does not apply by operation of section 63(2) of that Act;
"relevant service provider" means—
(a) a utility within the meaning of the Road Management Act 2004 ; or
(b) a provider of public transport within the meaning of the Road Management Act 2004 ;
"works manager" means a works manager within the meaning of the Road Management Act 2004 that is authorised in writing by a relevant service provider to carry out the relevant works on behalf of that service provider.