South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts33—Road closing and exemptions for certain events
(1) On the application
of any person interested, the Minister may declare an event to be an event to
which this section applies and may make an order directing—
(a) that
specified roads (being roads on which the event is to be held or roads that,
in the opinion of the Minister, should be closed for the purposes of the
event) be closed to traffic for a specified period; and
(b) that
persons taking part in the event be exempted, in relation to the specified
roads, from the duty to observe an enactment, regulation or by-law prescribing
a rule to be observed on roads by pedestrians or drivers of vehicles.
(2) An order to close
a road under subsection (1) can only be made with the consent of every
council within whose area a road intended to be closed by the order is
situated.
(3) At least two clear
days before an order to close a road under subsection (1) takes effect,
the Minister must, at the cost of the applicant, cause the order to be
advertised in the prescribed manner.
(4) An order under
this section is subject to any conditions which the Minister thinks fit to
impose and, upon breach of any condition, ceases to have effect.
(5) An order under
this section renders lawful anything done in accordance with the order.
(6) An order under
this section may apply to the whole or a part of a road.
(7) In addition to any
other power to regulate traffic conferred by this or any other Act, a police
officer may give such reasonable directions to—
(a) the
driver of a vehicle on a road; or
(b) the
owner or person apparently in charge of or with care or custody of a vehicle
on a road; or
(c) a
person who appears to have left a vehicle standing on a road (whether the
vehicle is attended by another person or not); or
(d) a
pedestrian on a road,
as are, in the police officer's opinion, necessary for the safe and efficient
conduct of an event to which this section applies.
(8) Such directions
may include directions for clearing vehicles or persons from a road or part of
a road or temporarily closing a road or part of a road and may be given on the
day of an event in preparation for, during or immediately after the conclusion
of, the event.
(9) A person to whom a
direction of a police officer is given pursuant to this section must forthwith
comply with it.
(9a) Where a direction
is given under subsection (7) to a person who appears—
(a) to
have charge, care or custody of a vehicle on a road; or
(b) to
have left a vehicle standing on a road,
that person is not guilty of an offence against this Act of failing to comply
with the direction if it is proved that he or she did not have charge, care or
custody of the vehicle and did not leave the vehicle standing on the road.
(10) In this
section—
"event" means an organised sporting, recreational, political, artistic,
cultural or other activity, and includes a street party.