Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Speed Limits on Beaches) Amendment Regulations 2023 (SA)
South Australia
under the
These regulations may be cited as the
Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Speed Limits on Beaches) Amendment Regulations 2023 .
These regulations come into operation on 1 December 2023.
After regulation 8 insert:
8A—Speed limits applying to driving on beaches
(1) Despite anything in Part 3 of the Rules (Speed limits), a driver must not drive a motor vehicle on a beach at a speed exceeding the speed limit indicated by an applicable speed limit sign or, if no speed limit sign applies, at a speed exceeding the prescribed speed limit (beaches).
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), the
prescribed speed limit (beaches) is as follows:
(a) when within 50 metres of a person—25 kilometres per hour;
(b) in any other case—40 kilometres per hour.
(3) In this regulation—
beach means the area of the coast constituted of pebbles, sand or mudflats, and includes—
(a) land that is within the highest astronomical tide and the lowest astronomical tide; and
(b) the backshore or soft sand extending inland from the highest astronomical tide; and
(c) any sandy or vegetated dunes adjacent to the seashore.
As required by section 10AA(2) of the
Legislative Instruments Act 1978 , the Minister has certified that, in the Minister's opinion, it is necessary or appropriate that these regulations come into operation as set out in these regulations.
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
on 12 October 2023
No 102 of 2023
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