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House of Assembly—No 98
As laid on the table and read a first time, 13 April 2005
South Australia
Road
Traffic (Validity of Regulations) Amendment Bill 2005
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Road
Traffic Act 1961
3 Amendment of section 80—Australian
Road Rules and related regulations
Schedule 1—Validity of
regulations
The Parliament of South Australia enacts
as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Validity of
Regulations) Amendment Act 2005.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the
amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961
3—Amendment of section 80—Australian Road Rules and related regulations
(1) Section 80(b)—delete paragraph (b) and
substitute:
(b) regulations dealing with any matter referred to in paragraph
(a).
(2) Section 80—after its present contents as
amended by this section (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:
(2) Without limiting any other provision of
this Act, a regulation may—
(a) exclude
the application of a provision of the Australian Road Rules in this State or a
part of this State or provide for the granting (and variation and revocation)
of exemptions by the Minister, subject to such conditions as the Minister
thinks fit, from any provision of the Australian Road Rules; or
(b) make a provision concerning a matter in this State or a part
of this State that differs from a provision contained in the Australian Road
Rules concerning that matter,
and in that event the regulation will prevail to the extent of
any inconsistency with the Australian Road Rules (whether the regulation was
made before, simultaneously with or after the affected provision of the
Australian Road Rules).
Schedule 1—Validity of regulations
For the avoidance of doubt, a regulation made or purportedly made under the Road Traffic Act 1961 after 10 November 1999 but before the commencement of this Act (whether or not still in effect) will be taken to have been validly made for the purposes of any matter, whether arising before or after the commencement of this Act, if the regulation could be validly made under the Road Traffic Act 1961 as amended by this Act.