ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 111
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 111
111 . Regulations etc.
(1) The Governor may
make regulations for any purpose for which regulations are contemplated or
required by this Act and may make all such other regulations as may, in his
opinion, be necessary or convenient for giving full effect to the provisions
of, and for the due administration of, this Act, for the equipment and use of
vehicles and for the regulation of traffic, generally.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), the Governor may make regulations —
(a)
empowering an authority therein named to —
(i)
prohibit, and to authorise and regulate, processions; or
(ii)
restrict or prohibit the use of such roads, for such
periods, as it may specify; or
(iii)
erect, establish or display traffic or road signs, road
markings, traffic control signals and similar devices; or
(iiia)
authorise any person or body or class of person or body to erect, establish or
display traffic or road signs, road markings, traffic control signals and
similar devices, or any class or type thereof, in accordance with the
instrument of authorisation;
(aa)
regulating or prohibiting stock on roads;
(b)
relating to the duties, obligations, conduct and behaviour of persons in
charge, drivers and passengers of vehicles or of any class of vehicle;
(c)
requiring the drivers and passengers of —
(i)
motor vehicles; and
(ii)
2-wheeled or 3-wheeled vehicles that are designed to be
propelled through a mechanism operated solely by human power; and
(iii)
2-wheeled or 3-wheeled vehicles that are power assisted
pedal cycles,
to wear prescribed
items of equipment, whether or not the items are items required to be fitted
to the vehicles;
[(d)-(g) deleted]
(h)
regulating or prohibiting the parking or standing of vehicles;
[(i) deleted]
(j)
prescribing matters for or in respect of which fees shall be charged or
charges shall be made and prescribing the amounts of such fees or charges;
(k)
imposing penalties not exceeding a fine of 64 PU for a first offence, and not
exceeding a fine of 96 PU for any subsequent offence, against any regulation
made under this section;
[(l), (m) deleted]
(n)
defining the previous offences that shall be taken into account in determining
whether an offence is a first or subsequent offence for the purpose of the
regulations.
[(2a), (2b) deleted]
(2c) The regulations
may make it an offence to contravene a condition imposed by or under the
regulations, but this subsection does not limit the other consequences that
the regulations may attach to a contravention.
(3) The regulations
may in respect of any fee or charge (whether prescribed by the Act or by the
regulations) provide for —
(a)
exemptions from the requirement to pay the fee or charge; or
(b) the
fee or charge to be reduced or refunded (in whole or in part); or
(c) the
payment of the fee or charge to be deferred.
(4) The regulations
may provide that the exemption, reduction, refund or deferral —
(a) only
applies in specified circumstances or in respect of specified classes of
persons or vehicles; or
(b) is
at the discretion of the CEO or a specified person; or
(c)
applies subject to specified requirements being satisfied; or
(d)
applies subject to conditions —
(i)
specified in the regulations; or
(ii)
imposed by the CEO or a specified person and specified in
a licence or permit.
(5) Without limiting
subsection (4)(c), the regulations may require a matter to be verified by
statutory declaration.
[Section 111 amended: No. 17 of 1976 s. 4; No. 89
of 1978 s. 19; No. 71 of 1979 s. 17; No. 81 of 1980 s. 10; No. 71 of 1981 s.
6; No. 105 of 1981 s. 18 and 19; No. 82 of 1982 s. 28; No. 95 of 1984 s. 8;
No. 11 of 1988 s. 17 and 24; No. 46 of 1991 s. 3; No. 92 of 1994 s. 40; No. 21
of 1995 s. 12; No. 76 of 1996 s. 20(3); No. 50 of 1997 s. 13; No. 57 of 1997
s. 106(3); No. 52 of 1998 s. 5; No. 39 of 2000 s. 46; No. 27 of 2001 s. 5; No.
28 of 2001 s. 23(1); No. 39 of 2007 s. 40; No. 8 of 2012 s. 32 and 36; No. 10
of 2015 s. 5.]
[ 111AA. Deleted: No. 8 of 2012 s. 33.]