TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 147 Regulating vehicles etc. in public places

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 147

147 Regulating vehicles etc. in public places

(1) A regulation may—

(a) prescribe rules about the operation of vehicles and their use in a public place, including, for example, rules about—

(i) driver behaviour; and

(ii) loading, unloading and securing loads; and

(iii) keeping and producing records; and

(iv) vehicle mass and dimension; and

(v) defective vehicles and ways of managing them; and

(vi) the environmental impact of vehicle use; and

(vii) rules for using public places for vehicles, drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and animals; and

(viii) removing vehicles from a public place if they pose a risk to safety or impede the use of the public place; and

(ix) the recovery of removed vehicles by their owners or registered operators, and fees for removing and storing the vehicles; and

(b) prescribe vehicle standards with which vehicles must comply to use a public place.

(2) A regulation may authorise a local government to—

(a) declare, by gazette notice—

(i) a place not to be a public place; or

(ii) reasonable conditions, consistent with the objectives of this Act, for using a vehicle in a public place; or

(b) by a local law, consistent with the objectives of this Act, regulate (including by permit) access of vehicles that must be registered under this Act, to a public place in its area.