Road Improvement (Special Funding) Amendment Act 1995 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Road Improvement (Special Funding)

Amendment Act 1995 No 15

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1	Name of Act	2
2	Commencement	2
3	Amendment of Road Improvement (Special Funding)
Act 1989 No 95	2

Schedule 1 Amendments 3

New South Wales

Road Improvement (Special Funding)

Amendment Act 1995 No 15

Act No 15, 1995

An Act to amend the Road Improvement (Special Funding) Act 1989 so as to extend until 31 August 1999 the period for which the special levy for road funding raised by that Act is payable, and to extend the purposes for which revenue gained from that special levy may be used; and for other purposes. [Assented to 15 June 1995]

Clause 1 Road Improvement (Special Funding) Amendment Act 1995 No 15

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

1 Name of Act

This Act is the Road Improvement (Special Funding) Amendment

Act 1995.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the date of assent.

3 Amendment of Road Improvement (Special Funding) Act 1989 No 95

The Road Improvement (Special Funding) Act 1989 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendments Schedule 1

Schedule 1 Amendments

(Section 3)

[1]        Section 4 Increased petroleum licence fees

Omit “1 September 1995” from section 4 (2G).

Insert instead “ 1 September 1999”.

[2]         Section 4 (3)

Omit “The reference in subsection (2)” from section 4 (3).

Insert instead “A reference in this section”.

[3]        Section 5 Increased revenue subject to statutory trust

Omit “road improvement and road safety” wherever occurring. public transport infrastructure”.

[4]        Section 5 (2) (d1)

Insert after section 5 (2) (d):

(d1) road related public transport infrastructure that is designed to benefit the road network by increasing transport alternatives to private vehicle use, by providing for improvements to road related public transport facilities or by assisting in the integration of different passenger transport systems,

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Schedule 1 Amendments

[5 ]        Section 5 (2) (e)

Omit “paragraphs (a)-(d)”.

Insert instead “any of the foregoing paragraphs”.

[6]         Section 5 (2A)

Insert after section 5 (2):

(2A) A reference in this section to road related public

transport infrastructure includes a reference to:

(a)	dedicated bus lanes, transit lanes, cycleways and facilities for high occupancy vehicles, and
(b)	bus facilities and bus shelters, and
(c)	technologies to facilitate public transport road operations, and
(d)	transport interchanges, and
(e)	off-road parking facilities adjacent to major arterial roads, and
(f)	commuter parking, bus facilities and bicycle lockers at railway stations, and
(g)	bus, bicycle and pedestrian access to railway stations, transport interchanges and major residential, recreational, commercial and industrial centres.

[7]         Section 5 (3)

Omit “paragraphs (a)-(e)” .

Insert instead “any of the paragraphs”

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[8]         Section 6 Decisions concerning road funding

Insert at the end of section 6:

(h) the need to develop and improve the efficient and effective operations of transport interchanges,

(i)        the need to provide alternative off-road parking facilities adjacent to major arterial roads to enable bus lanes and transit lanes to be created,

(j) the need to improve the efficiency of movement of public transport along major arterial roads.

[Minister's second reading speech m ade in ­

Legislative Assembly o n 31 May 1995

Legislative Council on 7 June 1995]

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