Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 (Vic)

Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000

S.R. No. 126/2000

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page

1.	Objectives	1
2.	Authorising provision	1
3.	Commencement	2
4.	Principal Regulations	2
5.	Power of Corporation to erect speed-limit signs on certain roads	2
6.	New regulation 303A inserted	3

303A.	Corporation to consult before erecting certain traffic
control items on local roads 3

7. Reduction in default speed-limit to 50 kilometres per hour 4

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STATUTORY RULES 2000

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Road Safety Act 1986

Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 5 December 2000
Responsible Minister:

PETER BATCHELOR Minister for Transport

HELEN DOYE

Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objectives

The objectives of these Regulations are to—

(a)	modify the effect of the Road Rules to reduce the default speed-limit in the State from 60 kilometres per hour to 50 kilometres per hour; and
(b)	powers in relation to the erection,

further provide for the Roads Corporation's removal of speed-limit signs.

2. Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 95 of the Road Safety Act 1986.

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3. Commencement

(1) These Regulations, other than regulation 7, come

into operation on the day on which they are made.

(2) Regulation 7 comes into operation on 22 January

2001.

4. Principal Regulations

In these Regulations, the Road Safety (Road
Rules) Regulations 19991 are called the Principal
Regulations.

5.  Power of Corporation to erect speed-limit signs on certain roads

In regulation 303 of the Principal Regulations,
after sub-regulation (2) insert—

"(3) Subject to regulation 303A, the Corporation

may, on a road other than a declared road,
erect, establish, display, maintain, or remove
a traffic control item that is a reasonable

likeness of one of the following diagrams—

(a)	an Area speed-limit sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules;
(b)	an End area speed-limit sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules;
(c)	an End school zone sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules;
(d)	an End shared zone sign at the end of rule 24 of the Road Rules;
(e)	an End speed-limit sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules;
(f)	a School zone sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules;

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(g)	a Shared zone sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules;
(h)	a Speed-limit sign (Standard sign) in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules.".

6. New regulation 303A inserted

After regulation 303 of the Principal Regulations insert—

"303A. Corporation to consult before erecting

certain traffic control items on local roads

(1) If the Corporation proposes to exercise a

power under regulation 303(3) to erect,
establish or display a traffic control item of a
kind referred to in regulation 303(3)(a) to
(h), the Corporation must notify, in writing,
the Council in whose municipal district the
traffic control item is proposed to be erected,

established or displayed.

(2) A Council that is notified under sub-

regulation (1) of a proposal, has 21 days within which it may disagree, in writing, with the proposal.

(3) If, within the period referred to in sub-

regulation (2), a Council disagrees with a
proposal and the Corporation intends to
proceed with the proposal, the Corporation
must publish a notice in a daily newspaper
circulating generally in the State, of its

intention to do so.

(4) A notice under sub-regulation (3) must—

(a) set out the details of the Corporation's proposal and the reasons for the proposal; and

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(b)	include a statement to the effect that the relevant Council has disagreed with the Corporation's proposal; and
(c)

specify where a copy of the and

(d) invite public comments and submissions on the proposal within 21 days of the date of publication of the notice.

(5) A person who intends to make a comment or

submission on the proposal must make the
comment or submission in writing to the

Corporation.

(6) The Corporation must consider every

comment and submission it receives on the

proposal.

(7) The Corporation, as soon as practicable after

making a decision on whether to proceed
with the proposal, must publish notice of the
decision in a daily newspaper circulating
generally in the State.".

7.  Reduction in default speed-limit to 50 kilometres per hour

In Schedule 4 to the Principal Regulations, after item 4 insert—

"5. In rule 25(2) of the Road Rules, the reference to

60 kilometres per hour is to be read as a reference to

50 kilometres per hour.".

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ENDNOTES

1 Reg. 4: S.R. No. 120/1999 as amended by S.R. No. 95/2000.