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House of Assembly—No 43
As laid on the table and read a first time,
Road
Traffic (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Road
Traffic Act 1961
4 Amendment of section 79B—Provisions
applying where certain offences are detected by photographic detection devices
5 Insertion of section 88
88 Distance to
be kept while overtaking cyclists
The Parliament of
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous)
Amendment Act 2006.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
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
(1) Section 79B—after subsection (9a) insert:
(9b) Where a
photographic detection device is operated for the purpose of obtaining evidence
of the commission of a speeding offence by a driver of a vehicle proceeding in
a particular direction on a portion of road, a person engaged in the setting up
or operation of the device must place—
(a) adjacent to the carriageway of the road; and
(b) before the point at which the device is being operated (but
not less than the prescribed distance before that point); and
(c) so as to be clearly visible to a driver of a vehicle
proceeding in that direction,
a sign approved by the Minister to warn such a driver that
he or she is passing through a portion of road in relation to which a
photographic detection device (however described) is being operated.
(2) Section 79B(10)(a)(ii)—after
"devices" insert:
and the placement of warning signs
(3) Section 79B(10)(b)(ii)—after
"devices" insert:
and the placement of warning signs
After section 87 insert:
88—Distance
to be kept while overtaking cyclists
A person driving a motor vehicle must keep the vehicle at a distance of not less than 1 metre from the side of a bicycle that the person is overtaking.