Title: Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) AmendmentBill 2011
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc126

Legislative Council—No 126
As received from the House of Assembly and read a first time, 14 September 2011

Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Bill 2011

Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 1—Preliminary

Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Bill 2011
Preliminary—Part 1

Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961

Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Bill 2011
Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961—Part 2

South Australia
Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Bill 2011
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961
4	Amendment of section 79B—Provisions applying where certain offences are detected by photographic detection devices

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Red Light Offences) Amendment Act 2011.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961
4—Amendment of section 79B—Provisions applying where certain offences are detected by photographic detection devices
	(1)	Section 79B(1), definition of prescribed offence, (b)—delete paragraph (b) and substitute:
	(b)	an offence against this Act prescribed by regulation; or
	(2)	Section 79B(1), definition of prescribed offence, (d)—delete paragraph (d) and substitute:
	(c)	an offence against the Motor Vehicles Act 1959 prescribed by regulation;
	(3)	Section 79B(1), definition of red light offence—delete "or traffic arrows" and substitute:
, traffic arrows or twin red lights
	(4)	Section 79B(1)—after the definition of speeding offence insert:
traffic arrows, traffic lights and twin red lights have the same respective meanings as in the Australian Road Rules.

HA GP 177-C OPC 21