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In addition, the Act creates Victoria's key road agency, the Roads Corporation or VicRoads. An important road regulation statute is the Road Management Act 2004, [8] which regulates the management of Victoria's road network. The key statute that regulates Victoria's road safety is the Road Safety Act 1986. [9]
VicRoads is a government joint venture in the state of Victoria, Australia.In the state, it is responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration.It is owned and operated through a joint venture between the Victorian government and a consortium made up of Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust and Macquarie Asset Management.
The Australian Road Rules are a set of model road rules developed by the National Road Transport Commission which form the basis for state and territory road rules across Australia. The first edition of the rules was published on 19 October 1999, after decades of working towards a shared road safety policy with officials from jurisdictions ...
The applicant for a Learner Licence must have completed a road safety program, called Road Ready, that is taught in many [vague] secondary schools or at a Road Ready Centre and pass a computerised road rules test. The Road Ready course at a Road Ready Centre is a minimum of ten hours, during which an applicant learns the road rules, undergoes ...
Members of the Victoria Police and VicRoads' authorised officers are given power under the act to direct a person to leave a restricted road accident site area (an area within a 500-metre radius of an accident damaged vehicle) if the person is causing an unwarranted obstruction to traffic, hindering efforts to attend to any injured persons or ...
Road signs in Australia are regulated by each state's government, but are standardised overall throughout the country. In 1999, the National Transport Commission (NTC), created the first set of Rules of the Road for Australia. [1] Australian road signs use the AS 1744:2015 fonts, which is the Highway Gothic typeface.
The Australian state of Victoria requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates. [1] Current regular issue plates are to the standard Australian dimensions of 372 mm (14.6 in) in length by 134 mm (5.3 in) in height, but Victoria has used its own serial dies since 1977.
The Transport (Amendment) Act also merged the Road Construction Authority and the Road Traffic Authority to create the Roads Corporation or VicRoads to manage the State's road network and its vehicle licensing and registration systems. The mergers took effect on 1 July 1989.