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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Road Traffic (Work Area Speed Limit Signs) Amendment
Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Road
Traffic Act 1961
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic
Act 1961
3Amendment of section 20—Duty to place and
remove speed limit signs for work sites
4Amendment of section 22—Proof of lawful
installation etc of traffic control devices
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Work Area Speed Limit Signs)
Amendment Act 2016.
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
3—Amendment
of section 20—Duty to place and remove speed limit signs for work
sites
(1) Section 20(1)—after the definition of public
authority insert:
responsible officer of a public authority
means—
(a) if the authority consists of a single person (including a corporation
sole but not any other body corporate)—that person; or
(b) if the authority consists of an unincorporated board or
committee—the presiding officer; or
(c) in any other case—the chief executive officer of the authority
or a person designated by the regulations as responsible officer of the
authority;
(2) Section 20(3)—delete subsection (3) and substitute:
(3) Subject to
subsection (4)
, a public authority that has placed signs on a road in accordance with
this section indicating a maximum speed not exceeding 25 kilometres an hour
must ensure that such signs are not in place on the road during any period
during which workers are not engaged at the relevant work area.
(4) Subsection
(3)
does not apply in relation to a period during which workers are not
engaged at the relevant work area—
(a) if the period is less than 5 hours; or
(b) if—
(i) the works being undertaken at the work area have not been completed
and result in an unusually high level of hazard for persons using the road
during that period; and
(ii) the Minister has consented to the signs remaining in place during
that period.
(5) If
subsection (3)
is not complied with, the responsible officer of the public authority is
guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
(6) If a public authority has engaged a contractor to carry out works on a
road on behalf of the authority—
(a) this section applies to the contractor in relation to those works in
the same way as it applies to the authority; and
(b) if
subsection (3)
is not complied with, the contractor is guilty of an offence, punishable
by a maximum penalty of $5 000.
4—Amendment
of section 22—Proof of lawful installation etc of traffic control
devices
Section 22—after "other than an offence against" insert:
section 20 or