Road Traffic Act 1974

Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007

 

Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007

Contents

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Interpretation1

4.Unlawful carrying of freight container2

5.Exception to regulation 42

6.Erection of signs2

7.Effect of signs on offence2

8.Infringement notice penalties2

Schedule 1 — O’Connor Industrial Area

Notes

Compilation table5

Provisions that have not come into operation5

Defined terms

 

Road Traffic Act 1974

Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007

1.Citation

These regulations are the Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows:

(a)regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;

(b)the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.Interpretation

In these regulations —

freight container means any re‑useable container of the kind mentioned in Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3711 that is designed for repeated use for the transport of goods by one or more modes of transport;

O’Connor Industrial Area means the area described in Schedule 1 which includes the portions of roads described as bordering that area;

prohibited road means South Street between the intersections of South Street and the Kwinana Freeway and South Street and Stock Road.

4.Unlawful carrying of freight container

A person must not drive a vehicle carrying a freight container on any part of a prohibited road.

Points: 3Modified penalty: 2 PU

5.Exception to regulation 4

Regulation 4 does not apply to a vehicle that is carrying a freight container for delivery to, or collection from, an address —

(a)on a prohibited road; or

(b)within the O’Connor Industrial Area.

6.Erection of signs

The Commissioner of Main Roads is authorised to erect any signs that may be necessary to inform the public of the prohibition in regulation 4.

7.Effect of signs on offence

A person commits the offence in regulation 4 regardless of whether a sign is erected.

8.Infringement notice penalties

If the penalty specified for an offence against these regulations includes a modified penalty, then for the purposes of section 102 of the Act —

(a)the offence is prescribed; and

(b)the amount of the modified penalty is the amount prescribed for the offence if the offence is dealt with under that section.

 

Schedule 1 — O’Connor Industrial Area

[r. 3]

The O’Connor Industrial Area is the area bordered by —

·South Street between the intersections of South Street and Ladner Way and South Street and Hines Road;

·Hines Road between the intersections of Hines Road and South Street and Hines Road and Clarke Street;

·Clarke Street between the intersections of Clarke Street and Hines Road and Clarke Street and Carrington Street;

·Carrington Street between the intersections of Carrington Street and Clarke Street and Carrington Street and Sainsbury Road;

·Sainsbury Road between the intersection of Sainsbury Road and Carrington Street and the southern point of the eastern boundary of the Fremantle cemetery;

·the eastern boundary of the Fremantle cemetery between Sainsbury Road and Leach Highway;

·Leach Highway from the northern point of the eastern boundary of the Fremantle cemetery to the intersection of Leach Highway and Stock Road;

·Stock Road between the intersections of Stock Road and Leach Highway and Stock Road and Garling Street;

·Garling Street between the intersections of Garling Street and Stock Road and Garling Street and Bowen Street;

·Bowen Street between the intersections of Bowen Street and Garling Street and Bowen Street and Winterburn Way;

·Winterburn Way until it reaches Ladner Street;

·Ladner Street between the intersections of Ladner Street and Winterburn Way and Ladner Street and South Street.

For information purposes the area described above is shown on the following map.

D3 Map Test1

 

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007 1a. The following table contains information about those regulations.

Compilation table

Citation

Gazettal

Commencement

Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007

2 Oct 2007 p. 4976-8

r. 1 and 2: 2 Oct 2007 (see r. 2(a));

Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 3 Oct 2007 (see r. 2(b))

1aOn the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Citation

Gazettal

Commencement

Road Traffic (Repeals and Amendment) Regulations 2014 Pt. 2 2

23 Dec 2014 p. 4914

Operative on the day fixed under the Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008 section 2(b) (see r. 2(b))

2On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Road Traffic (Repeals and Amendment) Regulations 2014 Pt. 2 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

 

Part 2 — Regulations repealed

3.Regulations repealed

The regulations listed in the Table are repealed.

Table

Road Traffic (Freight Containers on Prohibited Roads) Regulations 2007

 

 

 

 

Defined terms

 

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined termProvision(s)

freight container3

O’Connor Industrial Area3

prohibited road3