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Parking Amendment Local Law 2020

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This amendment revises the City of Gosnells Parking Local Law 2012 by updating terminology (replacing “ACROD sticker” with “disability parking permit”), modernising cross‑references to state road and passenger statutes, changing some parking restrictions (including fire‑hydrant proximity and a numeric clause value), standardising enforcement notice forms, and deleting a disabled‑parking offence row and an ancillary schedule. It affects drivers (including taxi and bus drivers), people using disability parking, and the local enforcement process by changing what is prohibited, how offences are recorded, and which offences remain enforceable.

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Parking Amendment Local Law 2020

LG301 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 City of Gosnells PARKING AMENDMENT LOCAL LAW 2020 Under the powers conferred by the Local Government Act 1995, and under all other powers enabling it, the Council of the City of Gosnells resolved on 10 November 2020 to make the following local law. PART 1—PRELIMINARY 1.1 Citation This local law is the City of Gosnells Parking Amendment Local Law 2020. 1.2 Commencement This local law comes into operation 14 days after the date of its publication in the Government Gazette. PART 2—AMENDMENTS 2.1 City of Gosnells Parking Local Law 2012 amended This local law amends the City of Gosnells Parking Local Law 2012 as published in the Government Gazette on 12 October 2012 and amended in the Government Gazette on 15 April 2014. 2.2 Clause 1.4 amended In clause 1.4— (a) delete the definition for ACROD sticker; (b) insert a new definition in alphabetical order as follows— “disability parking permit has the meaning given to it by the Local Government (Parking for People with Disabilities) Regulations 2014;”; (c) amend the definition of GVM by deleting the word “Code” and replacing it with the words “Road Traffic (Vehicles) Act 2012”; and (d) amend the definition of taxi by deleting the word “Code” and replacing it with the words “Transport (Road Passenger Services) Act 2018”. 2.3 Clause 2.1(c)(i) amended In clause 2.1(c)(i) delete the words “an ACROD sticker” and replace them with the words “a disability parking permit”. 2.4 Clause 2.5 deleted Delete all of clause 2.5. 2.5 Clause 3.3 amended In clause 3.3(1) delete the text “3” and replace it with “4.5”. 2.6 Clause 5.5 amended In clause 5.5 delete all of the text under the clause title “5.5 Fire hydrants” and replace it with the following— “(1) A driver shall not stop or park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is within 1 metre of a fire hydrant, or of any sign or mark indicating the existence of the fire hydrant unless— (a) the driver is driving a public bus, and the driver stops in a bus zone or at a bus stop and does not leave the bus unattended; or (b) the driver is driving a taxi and the driver stops in a taxi zone and does not leave the taxi unattended. (2) In this clause the driver leaves the vehicle ‘unattended’ if the driver leaves the vehicle so the driver is over 3 metres away from the closest point of the vehicle.” 2.7 Clause 8.3 amended In clause 8.3 delete the text in paragraph (b) and replace it with the following text— “if where the vehicle is required to be licensed under the Road Traffic Act or any corresponding law of another State or Territory of the Commonwealth— (i) the vehicle is not licensed under the Road Traffic Act or any corresponding law of another State or Territory of the Commonwealth; or (ii) each number plate issued for the vehicle is not fixed to the vehicle and displayed in accordance with regulation 119 of the Road Traffic (Vehicles) Regulations 2014 or any corresponding law of another State or Territory of the Commonwealth; or”

2.8 Clause 9.3 amended In clause 9.3 delete all the text under the clause title “9.3 Form of notices” and replace it with the following text— “For the purposes of this local law— (a) where a vehicle is involved in the commission of an offence, the form of the notice referred to in section 9.13 of the Act is that of Form 1 in Schedule 1 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996; (b) the form of the infringement notice given under section 9.16 of the Act is that of Form 2 in Schedule 1 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996; and (c) the form of the notice referred to in section 9.20 of the Act is that of Form 3 in Schedule 1 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996.” 2.9 Schedule 1—Prescribed offences amended In Schedule 1—Prescribed offences, delete the entire row containing ‘clause 2.5 Stopping in a disabled parking area’ from Schedule 1. 2.10 Schedule 2 deleted Delete all of Schedule 2 from the local law. ———— Dated: 16 November 2020. The Common Seal of the City of Gosnells was affixed by authority of a resolution of the Council in the presence of— DAVID GOODE JP, Mayor. IAN COWIE PSM, Chief Executive Officer. ———————————

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