3838GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 29 October 2019

3838 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 29 October 2019 special purpose vehicle has the meaning given to it by the Code; stop has the meaning given to it by the Code; symbol includes any symbol specified by the Code; taxi has the meaning given to it by the Code; taxi zone has the meaning given to it by the Code; thoroughfare has the meaning given to it by the Act; ticket machine means a machine or device which issues, as a result of money or other permitted form of payment being inserted into the machine, a ticket showing the period during which it is lawful to remain parked in the area to which the machine relates; ticket issuing machine means a parking meter which issues, as a result of money being inserted in the machine or such other form of payment as may be permitted to be made, a ticket showing the period during which it shall be lawful to remain parked in a metered space to which the machine is referable; ticket parking area means a parking area or facility where a sign applies which indicates a parking fee applies by purchase of a ticket; tour coach means a vehicle licensed as a Tour Coach and displaying “TC” registration plates, which is hired or chartered to carry passengers for the specific purpose of sight- seeing and/or tourism; traffic includes the passage of both vehicles and pedestrians; traffic-control signal has the meaning given to it by the Code; traffic island has the meaning given to it by the Code; traffic sign has the meaning given to it by the Code; trailer has the meaning given to it by the Code; truck has the meaning given to it by the Code; unattended means the driver has left the vehicle so that the driver is more than 3 metres from the closest point of the vehicle; unexpired parking ticket means a parking ticket on which a date and a time is printed and the printed time has not expired; vehicle has the meaning given to it by the Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008; verge means the portion of a thoroughfare which lies between the boundary of a carriageway and the adjacent property line but does not include a footpath. 1.5 Application of particular definitions (1) For the purposes of the application of the definitions ‘no parking area’ and ‘parking area’ an arrow inscribed on a traffic sign erected at an angle to the boundary of the carriageway is deemed to be pointing in the direction in which it would point, if the signs were turned at an angle of less than 90 degrees until parallel with the boundary. (2) A reference to a parking station or ticket parking area includes a reference to a part of the parking station or ticket parking area. (3) Unless the context otherwise requires, where a term is used, but not defined, in this local law, and that term is defined in the Road Traffic Act 1974, Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008, Road Traffic Code 2000 or in the Local Government Act 1995, then the term shall have the meaning given to it in those Acts or the Code. 1.6 Application and pre-existing signs (1) Subject to subclause (2), this local law applies to the parking region. (2) This local law does not apply to a parking facility or a parking station that is not occupied by the local government, unless the local government and the owner or occupier of that facility or station have agreed in writing that this local law will apply to that facility or station. (3) The agreement referred to in subclause (2) may be made on such terms and conditions as the parties may agree. (4) Where a parking facility or a parking station is identified in Schedule 3, then the facility or station shall be deemed to be a parking station to which this local law applies and it shall not be necessary to prove that it is the subject of an agreement referred to in subclause (2). (5) A sign that— (a) was erected by the local government or the Commissioner of Main Roads prior to the coming into operation of this local law; and (b) relates to the parking of vehicles within the parking region, shall be deemed for the purposes of this local law to have been erected by the local government under the authority of this local law. (6) An inscription or symbol on a sign referred to in subclause (5) operates and has effect according to its tenor, and where the inscription or symbol relates to the stopping of vehicles, it shall be deemed for the purposes of this local law to operate and have effect as if it related to the parking of vehicles. (7) The provisions of Parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 do not apply to a bicycle parked at a bicycle rail or bicycle rack.