Road Safety (Amendment) Act 2000
Act No. 14/2000
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page PART 1—PRELIMINARY 1
1. Purposes 1 2. Commencement 2 3. Principal Act 3
PART 2—DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED BY A DRUG 4
4. Definitions 4 5. Interpretative provisions 6 6. New offences relating to driving while impaired by a drug 7 7. Licence cancellation and disqualification 9 8. Immediate suspension of driver licence or permit 11 9. New sections 55A, 55B and 55C inserted 11
55A. Drug assessment 11 55B. Blood and urine samples 14 55C. Destruction of identifying information 16
10. Evidentiary provisions—blood tests 19 11. New section 57A inserted 21
57A. Evidentiary provisions—urine tests 21
12. Power to enter motor vehicles 25 13. New section 94B inserted 25
94B. Supreme Court—limitation of jurisdiction 25
14. Disallowance of Order and notice 25 15. Regulations 26
PART 3—OTHER AMENDMENTS TO ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 27
16. Definitions 27 17. Approved health professionals to take blood samples 27 18. Taking of blood samples 28 19. Power to prosecute 28 20. Certain matters indicated by camera devices and speed camera devices 29 21. General evidentiary provisions 29 22. Service of parking infringement notices 29 23. Service of notices 30
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24. New sections 104 and 105 inserted 30 104. Validation of certain resolutions fixing higher penalties
for parking infringements 30 105. Certain local laws to have force and effect despite
inconsistency with regulations 31
25. Subject matter for regulations 32 26. Statute law revision 33
PART 4—AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS 34 Division 1—Marine Act 1988 34
27. Approved health professionals to take blood samples 34 28. Taking of blood samples 35 29. New section 107C inserted 35
107C. Supreme Court—limitation of jurisdiction 35
30. Regulations 36
Division 2—Transport Act 1983 36
31. Approved health professionals to take blood samples 36 32. Taking of blood samples 37 33. Regulations 37 34. New section 255C inserted 38
255C. Supreme Court—limitation of jurisdiction 38
Division 3—Road Safety Act Amending Acts 38
35. Road Safety (Further Amendment) Act 1998 38 36. Repeal of certain unproclaimed amendments 38
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Victoria
No. 14 of 2000
Road Safety (Amendment) Act 2000†
[Assented to 18 April 2000]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
PART 1—PRELIMINARY
1. Purposes
The main purposes of this Act are—
(a) to amend the Road Safety Act 1986 to—
(i) prohibit driving while impaired by a drug other than alcohol;
(ii) enable blood samples to be taken by driving cases;
Road Safety (Amendment) Act 2000
Act No. 14/2000 s. 2 (iii) permit councils to, by resolution, fix a penalty, up to a maximum of $50, for parking infringements committed
against regulations made under the Road Safety Act 1986 within their municipal districts;
(iv) councils, fixing a penalty up to a
maximum of $50, for parking
infringements committed against
regulations made under the Roadvalidate certain resolutions made by districts;
(v) make certain local laws in relation to the parking of vehicles have force and effect despite being inconsistent…