Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Road Safety (General) Regulations 2009 - SECT 86

Transitional arrangements

86. Transitional arrangements



(1) In this regulation-

commencement day means 9 November 2009; old Regulations means the Road Safety
(General) Regulations 1999 as in force immediately before the commencement
day.

(2) Despite the revocation of the old Regulations, if a person is alleged to
have committed an offence before the commencement day that was prescribed to
be a traffic infringement or parking infringement under the old Regulations,
the old Regulations are taken to continue to apply and any infringement notice
issued and served in respect of that traffic infringement or parking
infringement may be issued and served in accordance with the old Regulations.

(3) If any document issued under the old Regulations before the commencement
day makes reference to any device or system, such reference is taken to
include a reference to a road safety camera or speed detector, where the case
requires.

(4) A reference to a road safety camera in a document issued after the
commencement day, in respect of a traffic infringement that is alleged to have
occurred before the commencement day, is taken to be a reference to a device
prescribed under the old Regulations, where the case requires.

(5) Any image or process produced in accordance with the process prescribed in
regulation 47 or regulation 48 in relation to an alleged offence detected
before the commencement day is taken to have been produced in accordance with
the process prescribed by the old regulations.

(6) This regulation does not affect or take away from the
Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984.

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