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South Australia
Road Traffic (Highway Speed Limit) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic
Act 1961
3 Insertion of section 81
81 Speed
limits for designated highways
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Highway Speed Limit)
Amendment Act 2008.
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
Part 3 Division 9—before section 82 insert:
81—Speed limits for designated
highways
(1) Subject to this section, a driver must not drive at a greater speed
than 130 kilometres per hour on a designated highway.
(2) Where a lesser speed limit (whether applicable generally or to a
specific class of drivers) would, but for subsection (1), be applicable to
the driver under this or any other Act, that lesser speed limit will be taken to
apply to the driver if—
(a) the driver is the driver of a heavy vehicle; or
(b) the driver is the holder of a learner's permit or provisional licence
within the meaning of the Motor Vehicles Act 1959; or
(c) the lesser speed limit is 90 kilometres per hour or less.
(3) The following roads or parts of roads are designated highways for the
purposes of this section:
(a) Road Number 1000, the Stuart Highway, between Port Augusta and the
Northern Territory;
(b) Road Number 2000, the Eyre Highway, between Port Augusta and the State
of Western Australia;
(c) Road Number 3400, the Barrier Highway, between the town of Hallett and
the State of New South Wales;
(d) Road Number 1100, the Hawker to Lyndhurst Road, between the towns of
Hawker and Lyndhurst.