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S. 56(1)(a) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(a), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(a), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)).
(a) generally regulating and controlling the carrying out of any works or undertaking by the Head, Transport for Victoria, a passenger transport company or rail freight operator;
S. 56(1)(b) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(a), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(b), substituted by No. 95/2005 s. 34(1), amended by Nos 19/2010 s. 73(a), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)).
(b) prohibiting conduct in relation to, or regulating the conduct of anyone in Southern Cross Station or in or on, any vehicle or place belonging to, or under the control of, Rail Track, the Head, Transport for Victoria, a passenger transport company, a rail freight operator or a bus company, including, for example, prohibiting or regulating the following conduct on the vehicle or place—
(i) littering;
(ii) gambling;
(iii) graffiti;
(iv) damage to property;
(v) the possession of open containers of liquor or containers that purport to contain liquor;
(vi) the crossing of railway tracks and tramway tracks in specified circumstances;
S. 56(1)(ba) inserted by No. 45/1999 s. 20(1)(a), substituted by No. 95/2005 s. 34(1), amended by No. 19/2010 s. 73(b).
(ba) providing for the removal and disposal of open containers of liquor, or containers that purport to contain liquor, in or on a vehicle or place referred to in paragraph (b);
S. 56(1)(c) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(a), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(c), 19/2010 s. 73(c), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)).
(c) preventing interference with or damage to Southern Cross Station or any property, works or undertaking in Southern Cross Station or belonging to or under the control of the Head, Transport for Victoria, a passenger transport company or rail freight operator;
S. 56(1)(ca) inserted by No. 45/1999 s. 20(1)(b).
(ca) preventing interference with or damage to any vehicle belonging to or under the control of a bus company;
S. 56(1)(d) amended by Nos 10087 s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 272), 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(b), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(d), 19/2010 s. 73(d), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)).
(d) prohibiting the discharge of sewage or drainage onto Southern Cross Station or any land or premises the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or Rail Track;
S. 56(1)(e) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(c), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(e), 19/2010 s. 73(e), 61/2011 s. 25(Sch. 2 item 5.2), 49/2019 s. 186 (Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)(b)).
(e) preventing trespassing upon Southern Cross Station or any land or premises the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or Rail Track or under the control of the Secretary or the Head, Transport for Victoria or of a passenger transport company or rail freight operator;
S. 56(1)(f) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(c), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(f), 19/2010 s. 73(f), 61/2011 s. 25(Sch. 2 item 5.2), 49/2019 s. 186 (Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)(b)).
(f) excluding or removing persons, animals or vehicles or specified classes of persons, animals or vehicles from Southern Cross Station or any land or premises the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or Rail Track or under the control of the Secretary or the Head, Transport for Victoria or of a passenger transport company or rail freight operator;
S. 56(1)(g) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(g), 19/2010 s. 73(g), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)).
(g) prescribing the persons or classes of persons permitted to leave vehicles standing in Southern Cross Station or upon any parking area provided by the Head, Transport for Victoria and the periods for which and the conditions under which vehicles may be so left standing;
S. 56(1)(ga) inserted by No. 95/2005 s. 34(2), amended by No. 19/2010 s. 73(h).
(ga) in relation to the parking of vehicles in Southern Cross Station or on any place belonging to, or under the control of, Rail Track, a passenger transport company, a rail freight operator or a bus company—
S. 56(1)(ga)(i) amended by No. 35/2014 s. 42(1)(a).
(i) regulating the circumstances in which vehicles may be parked or removed, including, for example—
S. 56(1)(ga)
(i)(A) amended by No. 35/2014 s. 42(1)(b).
(A) specifying the conditions and restrictions to which the parking or removal is subject, or to which it may be made subject (including the payment of fees and whether operator onus applies under Part 6AA of the **Road Safety Act 1986**);
(B) providing for different provisions or conditions and restrictions to apply to different areas of the place;
(ii) providing for signs and marks, and for control devices such as barriers and devices to restrict entry or exit;
(iii) specifying the legal effects of signs, marks and devices, and the evidence that is sufficient to prove their existence and effect;
S. 56(1)(ga)(iv) substituted by No. 35/2014 s. 42(1)(c).
(iv) providing for authorised officers to require an occupant, or an intending occupant, of a vehicle that is at or has just left the place to produce evidence that any condition or restriction applying to parking at or removal from that place has been complied with, regardless of where the person is at the time the requirement is made;
S. 56(1)(ga)(v) substituted by No. 35/2014 s. 42(1)(d).
(v) providing for the person in control of the place, any person acting on behalf of that person and authorised officers to give directions to the owner or driver of a vehicle in relation to the parking of the vehicle at, or removal of the vehicle from, the place (including directions that the vehicle not be parked at the place, or that the vehicle be removed from the place, or that a vehicle that has just left the place must stop), regardless of whether the owner or driver is in the vehicle, and regardless of where the person giving the direction is at the time the direction is given, and regardless of whether the vehicle is at or has just left the place at the time the direction is given;
S. 56(1)(ga)(vi) amended by No. 35/2014 s. 42(1)(e).
(vi) authorising the person in control of the place, a person acting on behalf of that person or an authorised officer, to do anything that is necessary to enable the enforcement of regulations made under this paragraph;
S. 56(1)(h) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(c), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(h), 19/2010 s. 73(i), 61/2011 s. 25(Sch. 2 item 5.2), 49/2019 s. 186 (Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)(b)).
(h) regulating and controlling the placing by persons of refuse, rubbish or other materials in Southern Cross Station or on land or premises the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or Rail Track or under the control of the Secretary or the Head, Transport for Victoria or of a passenger transport company or rail freight operator and the removal from such land or premises of refuse, rubbish or other materials;
S. 56(1)(i) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 2.1, 8.1), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(i)(i)(ii), 49/2019 s. 186 (Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)(c)).
(i) the filling up by the Head, Transport for Victoria of any excavation made by any person on land the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria;
S. 56(1)(j) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 2.1, 8.1), 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 202.3), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(j)(i)(ii), 49/2019 s. 186 (Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)(c)).
(j) the recovery by the Head, Transport for Victoria in the Magistrates' Court from the persons responsible of expenses incurred by the Head, Transport for Victoria in removing refuse, rubbish or material placed on land or premises the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or in filling up any excavation made by any person on land the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria in contravention of regulations made under this Part;
S. 56(1)(k) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(c), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(k), 19/2010 s. 73(j), 61/2011 s. 25(Sch. 2 item 5.2), 49/2019 s. 186 (Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)(b)).
(k) regulating and controlling noise and other emissions from Southern Cross Station or land the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or Rail Track or under the control of the Secretary or the Head, Transport for Victoria or of a passenger transport company or rail freight operator and the manner of recording and measuring any noise or emission and the instruments to be used therefor;
S. 56(1)(l) amended by No. 10189 s. 6(Sch. 1 item 8).
(l) the conditions upon which passengers and goods shall be carried or other services provided and prohibiting the carriage or delivery for carriage of dangerous goods other than dangerous goods within the meaning of the **Dangerous Goods Act 1985** where that Act deals with their carriage or delivery for carriage;
S. 56(1)(m) amended by No. 10189 s. 6(Sch. 1 item 9).
(m) the requirements to be observed and the precautions to be taken in connexion with the carriage or delivery for carriage of dangerous goods other than dangerous goods within the meaning of the **Dangerous Goods Act 1985** where that Act deals with their carriage or delivery for carriage;
S. 56(1)(ma) inserted by No. 120/1993 s. 65(1), amended by Nos 98/1998 s. 26(1)(d), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(l), 19/2010 s. 73(k).
(ma) prohibiting entry onto Southern Cross Station or any specified land or premises the property of a passenger transport company or Rail Track by persons not holding a ticket authorising that entry;
S. 56(1)(n) repealed by No. 95/2005 s. 34(3).
S. 56(1)(o) amended by No. 100/1986 s. 7(a), repealed by No. 95/2005 s. 34(3).
(p) regulating the disposal of unclaimed goods and the passing of title therein;
(q) regulating the manner of crossing any line of railway on the level and prescribing the charges to be demanded in respect of any such crossing; and
S. 56(1)(r) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), 98/1998 s. 26(1)(e)(i)(ii), 45/1999 s. 20(1)(c), 30/2000 s. 12(1)(m), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.5(a)).
(r) generally prescribing any matter or thing that by this Part or Division 4, 4AA or 4A of Part VII is authorized or required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Part or Division 4, 4AA or 4A of Part VII or giving effect to the powers conferred on a passenger transport company, Rail Track or the Head, Transport for Victoria by this Part or on the Secretary by Division 4, 4AA or 4A of Part VII.
(2) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) regulating or prohibiting the digging up of any road;
S. 56(2)(b) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 17), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.6(a)).
(b) prohibiting the driving, drawing or carrying over any road of a greater mass than that fixed by the Secretary;
(c) preventing interference with or damage to the soil, pavement flags, sods or other materials of any road or any fence on any road or any scrapings of any road or sand on any road;
S. 56(2)(d) amended by No. 10087 s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 272).
(d) prohibiting the discharge onto any road of sewage or drainage;
(e) preventing interference with or damage to any guide-post, bridge hand-rail, sign, notice, light or other fixture or equipment situated or placed upon any road;
(f) regulating or prohibiting the making of any building, hedge, ditch, fence, hole, heap, drain or obstruction on, across or in any road;
(g) keeping any road clear from all seedlings, suckers and other off-sets from any hedge or live fence and preventing any branch thereof from overhanging the road;
(h) regulating or prohibiting the erection and construction of hoardings on or in the vicinity of declared roads or regulating, restricting, preventing or controlling the exhibition of advertisements on or in the vicinity of declared roads;
(i) requiring the droving of live stock along stock routes and prohibiting or regulating the droving of live stock along roads or the carriageway of roads in cases where roads or sections thereof in the vicinity of those roads or where parts of those roads have been proclaimed to be stock routes;
(j) prohibiting or regulating excavating and blasting operations in the vicinity of any road;
(k) prohibiting or regulating the removal of grass growing on any road or the seed of such grass;
S. 56(2)(l) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 17), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.6(b)).
(l) preventing the cutting, breaking, barking, rooting up or otherwise destroying, damaging or removing of the whole or any part of any tree, sapling, shrub, underwood or timber in or upon any road without the written permission of the Head, Transport for Victoria;
S. 56(2)(m) amended by Nos 12/1989 s. 4(1)(Sch. 2 item 120.6), 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 17), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.6(b)).
(m) conferring upon the Head, Transport for Victoria with respect to roads any right, power, protection, privilege or obligation relating to the construction, improvement or maintenance of roads conferred upon a municipal council by any Act relating to local government;
(n) impounding cattle which are on any part of any State highway, main road, freeway, tourists' road or metropolitan bridge;
S. 56(2)(o) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 17), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.6(b)).
(o) preventing a municipal council from causing to be sealed any plan of subdivision of land abutting on a freeway or a proposed freeway except with the consent in writing of the Head, Transport for Victoria or, in any case where the Head, Transport for Victoria has failed or refused so to consent, of the Governor in Council;
(p) the manner of entering, crossing or leaving any freeway;
(q) prohibiting or regulating the taking or entering or being upon any freeway of any animal;
S. 56(2)(r) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 2.1, 17), 106/1997 s. 25, 54/2001 s. 25(Sch. item 1.34), 6/2010 s. 199(3)
(Sch. 3 item 12.1), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.6(b)).
(r) the removal of dead animals or of vehicles abandoned or left standing on any land or premises the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria or on any part of a declared road or any other road maintained by the Head, Transport for Victoria and the recovery of the cost of their removal and regulating the storage and disposal of such vehicles and the passing of title therein and providing for the recovery of the cost of their storage and disposal;
(s) permitting or prohibiting the use of freeways or any freeway or any class of freeways by traffic or any class of traffic;
(t) prohibiting or regulating the parking of vehicles on freeways or any freeway or any class of freeways;
(u) generally providing for the control, management and proper use of freeways;
S. 56(2)(v)–(y) repealed by No. 12/2004 s. 137(9).
S. 56(2)(ya) inserted by No. 100/1986 s. 7(b), repealed by No. 12/2004 s. 137(9).
(z) regulating the use of roadside reserves and requiring such charges as are approved by the Minister to be paid by persons using roadside reserves or facilities on roadside reserves.
(3) Regulations made under this Part—
(a) may be of general or of specially limited application;
(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;
S. 56(3)(c) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 3.1(a)), 30/2000 s. 12(2)(a), 35/2014 s. 42(2), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.7(a)).
(c) may leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by the Head, Transport for Victoria or any government department, municipal council or other public authority or by any officer thereof or, in the case of regulations relating to subsection (1)(ga), by a passenger transport company or by any officer thereof;
S. 56(3)(d) amended by Nos 45/1987 s. 205(Sch. item 139), 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 3.1(a)), 98/1998 s. 26(2)(a), 45/1999 s. 20(2)(a), 30/2000 s. 12(2)(b), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.7(a)).
(d) may confer powers or impose duties in connexion with the regulations on the Head, Transport for Victoria or passenger transport company or bus company or any government department, municipal council, responsible authority under the **Planning and Environment Act 1987** or other public authority or on any officer thereof or on the owner or occupier of any land, building or premises or on any other person whomsoever;
(e) may apply, adopt or incorporate, with or without modification, the provisions of any Act or of any regulations made under any Act, as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time;
S. 56(3)(f) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 3.1(b), 8.1), 98/1998 s. 26(2)(b), 45/1999 s. 20(2)(b), 30/2000 s. 12(2)(c)(i)(ii), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.7(b))[[3]](#endnote-4).
(f) may appoint fees which may be charged and received by the Head, Transport for Victoria or passenger transport company or bus company for any permit which may be granted under the regulations by the Head, Transport for Victoria, that passenger transport company or bus company;
S. 56(3)(g) amended by Nos 9/1987 s. 9(Sch. 3 item 18.1), 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 item 2.1), substituted by No. 52/1998
s. 311(Sch. 1 item 96.2), amended by Nos 30/2000 s. 12(2)(d), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.7(c)).
(g) may provide that an application may be made to the Tribunal for review of a decision of the Head, Transport for Victoria or for a declaration concerning the validity of any such decision; and
S. 56(3)(h) amended by No. 120/1993 s. 66(1).
(h) may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for any contravention of or failure to comply with the regulations.
S. 56(3A) inserted by No. 98/1998 s. 26(3).
(3A) A reference in subsection (1) to—
(a) a passenger transport company is a reference to such a company only in its capacity as a provider of a passenger service; and
S. 56(3A)(ab) inserted by No. 45/1999 s. 20(3).
(ab) a bus company is a reference to such a company only in its capacity as a provider of transport services; and
(b) a rail freight operator is a reference to such an operator only in its capacity as an operator of rail freight services—
and regulations cannot be made under that subsection that have any effect in relation to such a company or operator in the performance by it of any other function or the exercise by it of any other power.
(4) A reference in subsection (2)—
(a) to a road includes a road under construction; and
S. 56(4)(b) amended by Nos 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 2.1, 17), 30/2000 s. 12(4), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch. 4 item 45.8).
(b) to land the property of the Head, Transport for Victoria includes land taken or used by the Head, Transport for Victoria on which a highway is proposed to be or is being constructed.
S. 56(5) amended by No. 81/1990 s. 4,
repealed by No. 120/1993 s. 66(2),
new s. 56(5) inserted by No. 95/2005 s. 34(4).
(5) A reference to parking in subsection (1)(ga) includes a reference to leaving a vehicle standing.
S. 56(6) inserted by No. 9984 s. 5(f), repealed by No. 100/1986 s. 3(22).
S. 56A inserted by No. 107/1995 s. 122, amended by Nos 50/1998 s. 48, 102/1998 s. 38, 81/2000 s. 45(1)(2), repealed by No. 12/2004 s. 137(10).
S. 56B inserted by No. 50/1998 s. 49, amended by No. 81/2000 s. 45(3), repealed by No. 12/2004 s. 137(10).
S. 57
inserted by No. 19/2010 s. 74.