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Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011
sec.175Regulatory notice
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### sec.175 Regulatory notice
A health service chief executive may erect or display on, or at or near any vehicular entrance to, health services land, a notice (a regulatory notice ) regulating the driving, parking or standing of vehicles on the land, including, for example—
fixing a maximum speed limit; or
indicating a pedestrian crossing; or
indicating a place where the driving, parking or standing of a vehicle is restricted or prohibited.
A person on health services land must comply with a regulatory notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with it.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
A regulatory notice—
must state the limits of the area to which the notice applies; and
may state that a contravention of the notice is an offence against this Act and the penalty for the offence.
Without limiting subsection (1) , a health service chief executive may erect or display regulatory notices in the form of official traffic signs.
Evidence that a regulatory notice was erected or displayed at a place mentioned in subsection (1) is evidence that the notice was erected or displayed by the health service chief executive.
A regulatory notice erected or displayed under this section must be easily visible to passers-by.
s 175 amd 2012 No. 9 s 54 sch
(sec.175-ssec.1) A health service chief executive may erect or display on, or at or near any vehicular entrance to, health services land, a notice (a regulatory notice ) regulating the driving, parking or standing of vehicles on the land, including, for example— fixing a maximum speed limit; or indicating a pedestrian crossing; or indicating a place where the driving, parking or standing of a vehicle is restricted or prohibited.
(sec.175-ssec.2) A person on health services land must comply with a regulatory notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with it. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(sec.175-ssec.3) A regulatory notice— must state the limits of the area to which the notice applies; and may state that a contravention of the notice is an offence against this Act and the penalty for the offence.
(sec.175-ssec.4) Without limiting subsection (1) , a health service chief executive may erect or display regulatory notices in the form of official traffic signs.
(sec.175-ssec.5) Evidence that a regulatory notice was erected or displayed at a place mentioned in subsection (1) is evidence that the notice was erected or displayed by the health service chief executive.
(sec.175-ssec.6) A regulatory notice erected or displayed under this section must be easily visible to passers-by.
- (a) fixing a maximum speed limit; or
- (b) indicating a pedestrian crossing; or
- (c) indicating a place where the driving, parking or standing of a vehicle is restricted or prohibited.
- (a) must state the limits of the area to which the notice applies; and
- (b) may state that a contravention of the notice is an offence against this Act and the penalty for the offence.