for the moderatorsinformation local regulation and enforcement in W.A is a confered legislative authority from the miscellaneous section of the 1999 australian rules enabled by commonwealth act and the reason being that police nationwide enforce the 40 kph limited speed experiment without lawfull authority is that there is absent that conferred authority to do so.
What happened iswhen S.Atransport created the experiment in the early 1990's all traffic offenses came under the 1961 road traffic act,in between ammending the 1961 act as the current 1999 australian road rules,while the territory and states adopted S.A transport experiment the experiment was enforced under the 1961 act however the concept of limited speed area was not then concieved.let alone an anabling authority to enforce which was overlooked in the 1999 act and only rule 23 was inserted applying to a40 kph limited speed area was set out.
The rules do not create an offense,and in the absence of authority for police to enforce,police natiunwide charge all australian motorists with the wrong offense in breach of rule 21 instead of rule 23 which was never S.A transports intention which was limited speed applying to an area rather than a speed limit applying to a length of road .see howie v marsh(police) sa supreme court
S.A transport draughted aust, standards coded(as 1728?) called "road traffic controll guidelines" as to how the nations municiple councils would errect signage the last page quoted the experiment required feedback from motorists to fine tune.S.A transport then decided that some streets within the 40 kph limited speed area would be of 50/60kph and never tested there was a mish mash of limited speed and speed limit signage.
At intersections with traffic light signals possibly roundabouts also the municiple councils in breach of rule 328 of the australian road rules errected END OF40KPH LIMITED SPEED AREA in steets other than which the speed limit designed to define by default applied the other street of 50/60kph within a 40 kph limited speed area.The effectis all austra;lian motorists at the intersection may drive up to 50/60kph speed limit in accordance with signs and are issued wrongfull infringement notices for exceeding a40 kph limited speed area.
signage 'END OF 40KPH LIMITED SPEED AREA' designed by S.A transport that
replaced the original signage which read 'END OF LOCAL TRAFFIC AREA'when it was challenged as illigitimate speed signage as the signs did not show a numeral the number of kilometers per hour. The legal challenge did not go far enough to test other legal effects as just mentioned upon all motorists and neither were these no nothing speed signs removed .
All components for the draghting implimentation legislation and enforcement are in such conflict beyond the beginning of concieved incomprehension that the politicians put in the too hard basket .Whilst raising revenue there will never be until all these componets are understood a defense against such alledged offense.Best said with a conviction that jurisdiction of the courts have no authority to have this matter before the courts.
In S.A the police detection department were issuing thousands of speeding infringement notices showing the wrong registration plate numbers having no addequate or proper provisions to review complaints.Other complaints to the police entegrity commission went no where including hundreds of recommendations by the DPP(dept of public prosecution) for years wre never investigated and the response by the commissioner mr mal hyde was to sack the police inspector.
Would'nt it be bad luck not to have not another but two further alledged criminal offenses,first is to sign off this one . matross ps i am a beginner of threads and posts with critisism from the moderator for typographal errors whats happening if any one understands is when correcting the back space or space bar on key board would not only errase the error but also bring forward rest of the paragragh and errase that to .My position the is to start from scratch and i am not going to do that , to that i hope you catch my drift