Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

TRAFFIC ACT 1925 - SECT 31A

      (1) The Governor may, to further any scheme or agreement aimed at promoting or creating uniform or consistent national road transport legislation, make regulations prescribing –

(a) rules on road traffic matters that are uniform or essentially uniform, in content and style, with the road traffic legislation of other Australian jurisdictions; and

(b) all matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for explaining, administering, enforcing or otherwise giving effect to or complementing those rules.

      (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may apply to or provide for any matter that regulations under Part 2 of the Road Transport Reform (Vehicles and Traffic) Act 1993 of the Commonwealth may apply to or provide for.

      (3) The regulations may, for the purpose of consolidating the State's road traffic laws, include regulations prescribing road traffic laws that are peculiar to the State.

      (4) The regulations may  –

(a) be referred to in those regulations, and in this Act or in any other Act or for any other purpose, as rules or road rules; and

(b) provide that any guide, diagram, example, note or other explanatory or illustrative item set out in those regulations is, or is not, a part of the regulations.

      (5) The regulations may –

(a) be of limited or general application; and

(b) be made so as to apply differently according to matters, limitations or restrictions, whether as to time, circumstance or otherwise, specified in the regulations; and

(c) impose a duty or confer a power on a specified person or a specified class of persons; and

(d) authorise any matter to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by the Commission, the Commissioner of Police or a specified person; and

(e) provide for exemptions from the regulations; and

(f) provide for any transitional matters; and

(g) provide for the seizure and disposal of –

(i) abandoned vehicles; and

(ii) radar detectors, laser detectors and other devices that may hinder the proper enforcement of the regulations.

      (6) The regulations may  –

(a) provide that a contravention of, or a failure to comply with, any of the regulations is an offence; and

(b) in respect of such an offence, provide for the imposition of a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding 2 penalty units for each day during which the offence continues.