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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Road Traffic (South Eastern Freeway Offences) Amendment
Bill 2020
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Road
Traffic Act 1961
and for other purposes.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic
Act 1961
3Amendment of section 45C—Speed and gear
restrictions for trucks on prescribed roads
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (South Eastern Freeway
Offences) Amendment Act 2020.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act or variation of specified regulations amends or varies the Act or
regulations so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Road Traffic
Act 1961
3—Amendment
of section 45C—Speed and gear restrictions for trucks on prescribed
roads
(1) Section 45C(1)—delete "or bus"
(2) Section 45C(2)—delete "or bus" (twice occurring)
(3) Section 45C(3)(b)—after "or sentence" insert:
unless, in the case of a first offence, the court is satisfied, by evidence
given on oath, that the offence is trifling, in which case the court may order a
period of disqualification that is less than the prescribed minimum period but
not less than 1 month
(4) Section 45C(7), definition of bus—delete the
definition
(5) Section 45C(7), definition of primary brake—delete
"or bus"
(6) Section 45C(7), definition of relevant speed
limit—delete "or bus"
4—Amendment
of section 79B—Provisions applying where certain offences are detected by
photographic detection devices
Section 79B(2c)(b)—after "or sentence" insert:
unless, in the case of a first offence against this section, the court is
satisfied, by evidence given on oath, that the offence against
section 45C(1) in which the vehicle appears to have been involved is
trifling, in which case the court may order a period of disqualification that is
less than the prescribed minimum period but not less than 1 month
Part 3—Variation
of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and
Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014
5—Variation
of regulation 9C—Low gear offence (rule 108) not applicable to drivers of
trucks on prescribed road
Regulation 9C—delete "or bus"
Sections 45C(3)(b) and 79B(2c)(b) of the
Road
Traffic Act 1961
as amended by this Act apply for the purposes of any proceedings
determined after the commencement of this Act (regardless of whether the offence
to which the proceedings relate occurred before or after that
commencement).