Road Safety (Road Rules) (School Days) Regulations 2007 (Vic)

Road Safety (Road Rules) (School Days) Regulations 2007

S.R. No. 1/2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Regulation 203 inserted

203Traffic control devices applying on school days

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STATUTORY RULES 2007

S.R. No. 1/2007

Road Safety Act 1986

Road Safety (Road Rules) (School Days) Regulations 2007

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:

Dated: 23 January 2007

Responsible Minister:

TIM PALLAS
Minister for Roads and Ports

JUSTINE FRANKLIN

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Road Safety (Road Rules) Regulations 1999 to define the meaning of "school day" in relation to information on or with traffic control devices.

2Authorising provision

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

3Regulation 203 inserted

After regulation 202 of the Road Safety (Road Rules) Regulations 1999[1] insert—

"203Traffic control devices applying on school days

(1)If information on or with a traffic control device indicates that it applies on school days, it only applies—

(a)on a declared school day; or

(b)on any day indicated to be a school day by information on or with the traffic control device.

Note

Road Rule 317 provides that information with a traffic control device may indicate the times, days or circumstances when it applies or does not apply.

Example

The following sign applies—

·on declared school days, but not on other days unless information on or with the sign indicates that it is a school day at that place; and

·at the times indicated on school days, but not at other times.

Note that a sign may have a different number on the sign—see rule 316(4) of the Road Rules.

(2)For the avoidance of doubt, subregulation (1) does not limit or extend the effect of a traffic control device that does not have other information on or with that traffic control device.

Example

The following sign is not restricted to certain times or days and applies whenever it is displayed.

(3)In this regulation—

declared school day means any day that falls within a period declared by the Corporation, by notice in the Government Gazette, to be a school days period for the purposes of this regulation, and that is not one of the following—

(a)a Saturday or a Sunday; or

(b)a day appointed under the Public Holidays Act 1993 as a public holiday in the place in which the traffic control device is located;

Note

Different schools have different terms.  For this reason, a declared school days period may include days or weeks when many schools are open although some are closed.  For the same reason, information on or with a traffic control device may indicate that it is a school day at that particular place even though the day is not in a declared school days period because most other schools are closed at that time or is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.

traffic control device has the same meaning as it has in the Road Rules.".

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[1] Reg. 3: S.R. No. 120/1999.  Reprint No. 1 as at 15 December 2002.  Reprinted to S.R. No. 116/2002.  Subsequently amended by S.R. Nos 83/2004, 178/2004, 129/2005, 176/2005 and 22/2006.