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Land Transport Act 1998

Additional responsibilities concerning road transport - Bylaws

22AC: Minister may amend, replace, or disallow bylaws

You could also call this:

“Minister can change or cancel road rules if they're not good or already exist”

The Minister can change, replace, or cancel any rules made by people who control roads. The Minister can do this if the rules don’t match other laws, if they’re the same as information already in a special record book, or if they’re not good for traffic.

If the Minister cancels a rule, that part of the rule is no longer used. When the Minister cancels a rule, it usually stops working the day after everyone is told about it. Sometimes, the Minister might say it stops working on a later date.

When the Minister makes changes to these rules, they have to tell everyone about it in a special way. This is because these changes are a type of law, and there are rules about how to share new laws with people.

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Part 3 Additional responsibilities concerning road transport
Bylaws

22ACMinister may amend, replace, or disallow bylaws

  1. The Minister may, by notice, amend, replace, or disallow, either wholly or in part, any bylaw made by a road controlling authority under section 22AB or any other enactment (whether before or after the commencement of this section) if the bylaw—

  2. is inconsistent with any enactment; or
    1. is inconsistent with or duplicates any land transport record included in the register established by section 200E; or
      1. is unreasonable or undesirable in so far as it relates to or may affect traffic.

        1. On any disallowance under subsection (1), the bylaw must, to the extent to which it is disallowed, be treated as having been revoked.

        2. Any disallowance under subsection (1) takes effect either on the day after the notice of disallowance is published under the Legislation Act 2019 (see subsection (4)) or on a later date that may be specified in the notice.

        3. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

        Notes
        • Section 22AC: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Land Transport (Enforcement Powers) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 36).
        • Section 22AC(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
        • Section 22AC(1)(aa): inserted, on , by section 28 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
        • Section 22AC(3): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
        • Section 22AC(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).