Traffic Act 1909 Regulation relating to the placing of building waste containers on public streets (1990-452) [GG No 82 of 29.6.1990] (NSW)

1990 - No. 452

TRAFFIC ACT 1909 - REGULATION

(Relating to the placing of building waste containers

on public streets)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 82 of 29 June 1990]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Traffic Act 1909, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

BRUCE BAIRD

Minister for Transport.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 1 August 1990.

Amendment

2. The General Traffic (Pedestrian) Regulations 1937 are amended

by inserting at the end of Regulation 7 the following clauses:

(2) Clause (1) (e) does not prohibit a person from placing a

building waste container in a public street if the person does so:

(a)	where the container is placed within a local government area, with the prior written consent of the Council of the local government area granted under clause 6 of Ordinance No. 30 made under the Local Government Act 1919; and
(b)	where the public street is a classified road within the meaning of the State Roads Act 1986, with the consent of the Authority given under section 60 of that Act.

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(3) In this Regulation, "building waste container" means a

container that is designed:

(a)	to be used and re-used for the temporary storage and subsequent conveyance and disposal of builders’ rubble, waste, tree loppings, household or other rubbish or earth (but not for the storage of putrescible or dangerous waste); and
(b)	to be removed from, returned to and carried by a vehicle that, when carrying the container, may lawfully be used on a public street.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to create an exception to an offence under the
General Traffic (Pedestrian) Regulations 1937 so as to allow building waste
containers to be placed in public streets if appropriate consents have been obtained.