Australian Capital Territory
Road Transport (General) (Pay Parking Area Fees) Determination 2008 (No 1)
Disallowable instrument DI2008–141
made under the  
Road Transport (General) Act 1999, s 96 (Determination of fees, charges and other amounts)
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Section 96 of the Road Transport (General) Act 1999 provides for the Minister to determine fees, charges and other amounts payable under the ACT Road Transport legislation.

This instrument sets the fees for pay parking areas.  Under the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Regulation 2000 pay parking areas fall into two categories: metered parking areas (which are established by the Road Transport Authority under section 73(1) of the Regulation) and ticket parking areas (which are established under section 76(2)(a) of the Regulation.)

Formerly fees for these areas were set by two instruments – Disallowable Instruments DI2005-201 (Road Transport (General) (Parking Meter Fees) Determination 2005 (No 1)) and DI2005-262 (Road Transport (General) (Parking Ticket Fees) Determination 2005 (No 3).)  This instrument revokes both those former instruments.

Fees for ticket parking areas located in City, Woden, Tuggeranong, Belconnen, Deakin, Dickson, Manuka and Kingston are set out in schedule 1 of this instrument.  The schedule sets a $5.00 all day parking fee and complementary short stay parking fees for new carparks around and south of the futsal slab in Acton and on Irving Street east of Phillip Oval.  A new ticket parking area has also been established in Woolley Street Dickson, replacing part of the former metered parking area, but retaining the existing fee of $0.80 per hour for that area.  Fees for existing ticket parking areas have not changed from the former instrument.  Territory carparks that have been sold and which were referred to in the former ticket parking area fee determination have been removed from this instrument.  

The Instrument does not change the level of ticket parking area fees operated by private entities such as the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), or Parking Authorities such as the Canberra International Airport and Screensound Australia.
Schedule 1 of the instrument also identifies ticket parking areas as short-stay or multi-stay.  The fees for pre-paid all day stay tickets useable in multi-stay ticket parking areas are set out in schedule 2.

Fees for metered parking areas in City, Braddon, Reid, Turner, Phillip, Deakin, Dickson, Kingston and Griffith are set out in schedule 3.  No changes to the amounts of the fees have been made.