Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Road Rules) Amendment Regulations 2023 (SA)

South Australia

Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Road Rules) Amendment Regulations 2023

under the Road Traffic Act 1961

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1            Short title

2            Commencement

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014

3            Substitution of regulation 9A

9A          Giving way, etc, to riders of bicycles on crossings or slip lanes

4            Amendment of regulation 9B—Giving way to pedestrians, or riders of bicycles, entering crossings or slip lanes

5            Amendment of regulation 12—Vehicles permitted in bus lanes

6            Substitution of regulation 13

13          Bus only lanes

7           Insertion of regulation 19A

19A         Electric-powered vehicle symbols and signs

8            Insertion of regulation 34A

34A         Wearing of seatbelts by drivers

9            Insertion of regulation 58A

58A         Parking control sign

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Road Rules) Amendment Regulations 2023.

2—Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the Australian Road Rules (Miscellaneous) Amendment Rules 2023 come into operation.

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014

3—Substitution of regulation 9A

Regulation 9A—delete the regulation and substitute:

9A—Giving way, etc, to riders of bicycles on crossings or slip lanes

Despite anything in—

(a)rule 63 (Giving way at an intersection with traffic lights not operating or only partly operating); or

(b)rule 69 (Giving way at a give way sign or give way line at an intersection (except a roundabout)); or

(c)rule 73 (Giving way at a T‑intersection); or

(d)the definition of a pedestrian in rule 18 (Who is a pedestrian) and the dictionary at the end of the Rules,

a reference to a pedestrian in rules 63, 69(2A) or 73(5A) will be taken to include a reference to the rider of a bicycle.

4—Amendment of regulation 9B—Giving way to pedestrians, or riders of bicycles, entering crossings or slip lanes

Regulation 9B(d)—delete paragraph (d)

5—Amendment of regulation 12—Vehicles permitted in bus lanes

Regulation 12—delete ", other than a bus lane or portion of a bus lane referred to in regulation 13"

6—Substitution of regulation 13

Regulation 13—delete the regulation and substitute:

13—Bus only lanes

(1)Despite anything in rule 154A (Bus only lanes) and the Rules, for the purposes of the definition of bus only lane in rule 154A(6) and the Rules, a bus only lane includes the following:

(a)a marked lane, or a part of a marked lane, painted red in colour and marked with a bus only lane road marking—

(i)beginning at the commencement of the red painted area; and

(ii)ending at the end of that painted area;

(b)a marked lane, or a part of a marked lane—

(i)that is painted red in colour for a distance of at least 12.5 metres and marked on that red painted area with a bus only lane road marking; and

(ii)that thereafter has—

(A)a red line at least 150 mm in width marked on or immediately inside the lane boundary on each side of the lane; and

(B)further lengths of the lane painted red in colour and marked with a bus only lane road marking in accordance with subparagraph (i) at regular intervals (being intervals not exceeding 200 metres from the end of 1 painted length of lane to the commencement of the next),

beginning at the commencement of the red painted area referred to in subparagraph (i) and ending at the nearest of the following:

(iii)the end of the red lines referred to in subparagraph (ii)(A);

(iv)an end bus only lane road marking;

(v)an end bus only lane sign.

(2)Part 20 (Traffic control devices and traffic‑related items) of the Rules applies in relation to a road marking described in subregulation (1) as if this regulation formed part of the Rules.

7—Insertion of regulation 19A

After regulation 19 insert:

19A—Electric-powered vehicle symbols and signs

(1)For the purposes of rule 203B and the Rules—

(a)the following symbol consisting of a car and power cord is an electric‑powered vehicle symbol:

(b)a traffic sign, other than a permissive parking sign, containing an electric‑powered vehicle symbol is an electric‑powered vehicle parking sign.

(2)For the purposes of rule 203C and the Rules—

(a)the following symbol consisting of a car and power cord, together with the words "While Charging", is an electric‑powered vehicle charging symbol:

WHILE CHARGING

(b)a traffic sign, other than a permissive parking sign, containing an electric‑powered vehicle charging symbol is an electric‑powered vehicle charging parking sign.

(3)Subject to subregulation (4), Part 20 (Traffic control devices and traffic‑related items) of the Rules applies in relation to a symbol or sign referred to in subregulations (1) and (2) as if the symbols and signs formed part of the Rules.

(4)Despite rule 314(3) and (4) (Diagrams of traffic control devices, traffic‑related items and symbols), the symbols in subregulations (1)(a) and (2)(a) may consist of a black, red or green car and power cord on a white background.

8—Insertion of regulation 34A

After regulation 34 insert:

34A—Wearing of seatbelts by drivers

Despite anything in rule 264 (Wearing of seatbelts by drivers), the driver of a motor vehicle that is moving, or is stationary but not parked, is not required to comply with that rule if the driver is occupying a driver's seating position but is exempt from wearing a seatbelt under rule 267 (Exemptions from wearing seatbelts).

9—Insertion of regulation 58A

After Regulation 58 insert:

58A—Parking control sign

For the purposes of the Rules and the definition of parking control sign in the dictionary at the end of the Rules, an electric‑powered vehicle parking sign and an electric‑powered vehicle charging parking sign are parking control signs.

Made by the Governor

with the advice and consent of the Executive Council

on 30 November 2023

No 114 of 2023