New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 45E

45E Interpretation

(1) In this Part:
"approaches", in relation to an intersection or railway crossing, means so much of the approaches to the intersection or crossing as consist of roads or road related areas or of parts of roads or road related areas.
"distribution district" of an electricity distribution network service provider means the provider’s distribution district within the meaning of the Electricity Supply Act 1995 .
"electricity distribution network service provider" means a distribution network service provider within the meaning of the Electricity Supply Act 1995 .
"electricity structure" means any structure erected or maintained by an electricity distribution network service provider for the purpose of transmission or distribution of electricity or for the purpose of public lighting.
"intersection" means an intersection or junction of roads or road related areas.
"public authority" means a public or local authority constituted by or under an Act, and includes the following:

(a) the Police Service,

(b) any Government department,

(c) a statutory body representing the Crown,

(d) a person or body prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.

"road" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 .
"road related area" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 .
"traffic control facility" means:

(a) traffic control lights on roads or road related areas, and equipment used in connection with traffic control lights, or

(b) any sign, marking, structure or device containing or relating to a requirement or direction, contravention of which is an offence arising under:

(i) this Act or the regulations, or

(ii) any other Act, regulation or by-law prescribed for the purposes of this subparagraph, or

(c) any other sign, marking, structure or device that is intended to promote safe or orderly traffic movement on roads or road related areas or to warn, advise or inform the drivers of vehicles, or pedestrians, of any matter or thing in relation to vehicular or pedestrian traffic or road conditions or hazards, or

(d) any bridge or subway or other facility for use by pedestrians over, across, under or alongside a road or road related area, or

(e) any other thing prescribed as a traffic control facility by the regulations.

"traffic route" means:

(a) a main road or secondary road within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993 , or

(b) a public road within the meaning of that Act (other than a main road or secondary road) in respect of which the Authority has, by reason of the volume of vehicular or pedestrian traffic carried on it, determined requires lighting to a standard approved by the Authority.

(2) A reference (however expressed) in this Part to any thing, person or traffic, on a road or road related area, includes a reference to any thing, person or traffic above, over, across, in or under a road or road related area.