2002

THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

SUBORDINATE LAW No. SL 2002-17

ROAD TRANSPORT (OFFENCES) REGULATIONS 2002 (No. 1)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Circulated by authority of

Bill Wood MLA
Minister for Urban Services

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ROAD TRANSPORT (OFFENCES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2002 (No. 1)

SUBORDINATE LAW No. SL 2002-17

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Overview

The Road Transport (Offences) Amendment Regulations 2002 amends the Road Transport (Offences) Regulations 2001.  The new Regulations increase infringement notice penalties for some traffic offences to maintain parity with NSW penalties for similar offences.

Detail

1.	The Road Transport (Offences) Amendment Regulations 2002 are to commence on 1 July 2002. 

2.	Penalties for seat belt infringement notice offences have been increased from $115 to $220 to increase the deterrent effect and to remain consistent with NSW.  All other infringement notice offences have increased by around 2%.

3.	Regulation 8 is amended to remove inaccuracies in the list of offences relevant to each Administering Authority, specifically the Road Transport Authority and the Chief Police Officer.

4.	In the table following, where an existing infringement penalty amount is listed in Column 1, the new infringement penalty amount is listed in Column 2.  In view of the number of specific offences covered by the regulations, an example only of an offence to which the penalty amount applies is provided in Column 3.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Existing penalty level $	Amended penalty level $	Offence example	
62 	63	Disobey no parking sign	
69 	70	Reverse vehicle too far	
84 	86	Stop in loading zone	
93 	95	Drive vehicle with TV/visual display unit	
115 	118	Exceed speed by 15 km/h or less	
138 	141	Disobey no stopping sign	
154 	157	Disobey bridge load limit	
162 	165	Not turn left from left lane	
184 	188	Exceed speed >15 but not more than 30 km/h	
206 	210	Stop on/near children’s crossing	
207 	211	U turn – no view of traffic	
115	220	Drive while not wearing seat belt	
329 	336	Drive while right to drive suspended	
361 	368	Burnout	
419 	428	Use uninsured motor vehicle	
464 	473	Aggravated burnout	
514 	524	Exceed speed by > 30 but not more than 45 km/h	
1067 	1089	Sell/offer for sale or buy traffic offence evasion article	
1419 	1447	Exceed speed > 45 km/h	

The power to make these regulations is found under sections 23 and 233 of the Road Transport (General) Act 1999.