133 Roads and Ports Legislation Amendment (Road Safety and Other Matters) Act 2025—Active investigations of the Chief Investigator, Transport Safety
(1) This section applies if the Chief Investigator has not completed an investigation into a transport safety matter (an active investigation) immediately before the commencement day.
See section 182 of the Transport Integration Act 2010.
(2) On and after the commencement day, Part 2A applies to an active investigation.
(3) In addition, and without limiting section 16 of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984, anything done under Part V of the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983 before the commencement day for the purposes of, or in relation to, an active investigation is, on that day, taken to have been done under Part 2A.
commencement day means the day on which Part 7 of the Roads and Ports Legislation Amendment (Road Safety and Other Matters) Act 2025 comes into operation;
transport safety matter has the same meaning as in the Transport Integration Act 2010.
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Endnotes
1 General information
See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.
Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Assembly: 20 February 2014
Legislative Council: 27 March 2014
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to provide a scheme for the enforcement of transport system safety legislation by re‑enacting, with modifications, provisions of the scheme under the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983 for the enforcement of transport system safety legislation and adopting and adapting provisions from the Rail Safety National Law and for other purposes."
The Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 was assented to on 8 April 2014 and came into operation as follows:
Sections 1–5, 157 and 158 on 18 May 2014: Special Gazette (No. 148) 13 May 2014 page 1; sections 6–156, 159, 160 on 19 May 2014: Special Gazette (No. 148) 13 May 2014 page 2.
INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)
Style changes
Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.
References to ILA s. 39B
Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original section or clause.
Interpretation
As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:
• Headings
All headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. See section 36(1A)(2A).
• Examples, diagrams or notes
All examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act. See section 36(3A).
• Punctuation
All punctuation included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 forms part of that Act. Any punctuation inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. See section 36(3B).
• Provision numbers
All provision numbers included in an Act form part of that Act, whether inserted in the Act before, on or after 1 January 2001. Provision numbers include section numbers, subsection numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).
• Location of "legislative items"
A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of an Act is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.
• Other material
Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of an Act.
See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).
2 Table of Amendments
This publication incorporates amendments made to the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014, No. 27/2014
| Assent Date: | 8.4.14 |
| Commencement Date: | S. 160 on 19.5.15: s. 160 |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Fines Reform Act 2014, No. 47/2014 (as amended by No. 20/2015)
| Assent Date: | 1.7.14 |
| Commencement Date: | Ss 315, 316 on 31.12.17: Special Gazette (No. 443) 19.12.17 p. 1 |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Statute Law Revision Act 2015, No. 21/2015
| Assent Date: | 16.6.15 |
| Commencement Date: | S. 3(Sch. 1 item 57) on 1.8.15: s. 2(1) |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Transport Legislation Amendment (Road Safety, Rail and Other Matters) Act 2017, No. 68/2017
| Assent Date: | 19.12.17 |
| Commencement Date: | Ss 109–120 on 20.12.17: s. 2(2) |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Transport Legislation Amendment (Better Roads Victoria and Other Amendments) Act 2019, No. 7/2019
| Assent Date: | 26.3.19 |
| Commencement Date: | S. 39 on 27.3.19: s. 2(1) |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Marine and Fisheries Legislation Amendment Act 2019, No. 35/2019
| Assent Date: | 22.10.19 |
| Commencement Date: | S. 17 on 1.1.20: Special Gazette (No. 537) 17.12.19 p. 2 |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Rail Safety Legislation Amendment (National Services Delivery and Related Reforms) Act 2019, No. 41/2019
| Assent Date: | 6.11.19 |
| Commencement Date: | Ss 20–88 on 2.12.19: Special Gazette (No. 480) 26.11.19 p. 1 |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Transport Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Act 2021, No. 30/2021
| Assent Date: | 10.8.21 |
| Commencement Date: | Ss 101, 102 on 3.11.21: Special Gazette (No. 578) 19.10.21 p. 1; ss 99, 100, 103 on 1.3.22: s. 2(3) |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Transport Legislation Amendment (Port Reforms and Other Matters) Act 2022, No. 19/2022
| Assent Date: | 24.5.22 |
| Commencement Date: | Ss 83, 84 on 1.3.23: s. 2(3) |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Transport Legislation Amendment Act 2023, No. 34/2023
| Assent Date: | 21.11.23 |
| Commencement Date: | S. 127(Sch. 1 item 18) on 22.11.23: s. 2(1) |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |
Roads and Ports Legislation Amendment (Road Safety and Other Matters) Act 2025, No. 25/2025
| Assent Date: | 5.8.25 |
| Commencement Date: | S. 106(Sch. 1 item 48) on 6.8.25: s. 2(1); ss 65–81 on 1.1.26: Special Gazette (No. 672) 2.12.25 p. 1 |
| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014 |