Road Traffic (Towed Agricultural Implements) Amendment Regulations 2007 (WA)

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AUSTRALIAN
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ISSN 1448-949X PRINT POST APPROVED PP665002/00041

PERTH, WEDNESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2007 No. 223 SPECIAL

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY JOHN A. STRIJK, GOVERNMENT PRINTER AT 3.30 PM

© STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Road Traffic Act 1974

Road Traffic (Towed Agricultural Implements)

Amendment Regulations 2007

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Road Traffic (Towed Agricultural
Implements) Amendment Regulations 2007.

2.             Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows:

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette (“Gazettal day”);
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on the day after Gazettal day.

3.             The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Road Traffic
(Towed Agricultural Implements) Regulations 1995.

4.             Regulation 3 amended

(1) Regulation 3(1) is amended as follows:

(a) by inserting in the appropriate alphabetical position —

“

“gate to gate” means 2 gates facing each other, one on each side of a road, where the distance between the 2 centrelines, drawn at right angles to the road, of

each gate is 20 metres or less;

”;

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(b)

in the definition of “on a road” after “partly on a road” “

but does not include on a road when an
agricultural implement is being towed from gate to

gate

”.

(2) After regulation 3(3) the following subregulation is inserted —

“

(4) An agricultural implement is not subject to regulations that would apply to it under the Road Traffic Act 1974, other than regulation 31 of these regulations, while the agricultural implement is being towed from gate to gate in accordance with regulation 31 of these regulations.

”.

5.             Regulation 31 inserted

After regulation 30 the following regulation is inserted —

“

31.           Gate to gate towing

(1) Despite these regulations, a person may tow an
agricultural implement or an agricultural combination
from gate to gate —

(a) be made is a road that is the responsibility of

where the road across which the crossing is to approval of the Commissioner has been obtained in writing; and

(b)

if the traffic management plan entitled “Traffic Agricultural Implements Crossings Ref Number
07/2071 D07#103477” has been approved by the

Commissioner of Main Roads and published in the Gazette.

(2)	A person is not towing an agricultural implement or an agricultural combination from gate to gate in accordance with this regulation if the towing is carried out in a manner contrary to the approved management plan.
(3)	Approval under subregulation (1)(a) is to be sought and obtained in writing.
(4)	A person may tow an agricultural implement or an agricultural combination from gate to gate in accordance with this regulation during the day-time or the night-time.

”.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.