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Traffic Amendment (Road Rules Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009
� The Bill is administrative and overcomes a technical drafting issue.
� The Bill amends references to the Traffic (Road Rules) Regulations 1999 in
section 44 of the Local Government (Highways) Act 1982, section 22 of the
Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Act 1973 and section 3 of the
Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries Act 2008. These Acts will in future use
the short title, Road Rules, to reference the road rules legislation.
� Section 31A of the Traffic Act 1925 currently provides that the Governor may
make regulations prescribing rules on nationally consistent road traffic
matters. The rules that provide for traffic matters are currently contained in the
Traffic (Road Rules) Regulations 1999.
� The Traffic Amendment Act 2009 (which has not yet commenced) amends
section 31A of the Traffic Act so in future the Governor will have authority to
make rules on traffic matters.
� The Acts Interpretation Act 1931 does not provide for existing references to
the road rules in the Local Government (Highways) Act 1982, Motor Accidents
(Liabilities and Compensation) Act 1973 and Taxi and Luxury Hire Car
Industries Act 2008 to be "saved" without legislative amendment.
� References to the Traffic (Road Rules) Regulations 1999 in the
aforementioned Acts will become obsolete when the regulations are
automatically repealed under the provisions of the Subordinate Legislation Act
1992.
� By changing all the references in the aforementioned legislation to the short
title Road Rules the references will remain accurate and active.