New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Without limiting the general power to make rules under section 152, ordinary rules may—
(a) regulate the use of roads, and empower road controlling authorities to control, restrict, and prohibit traffic, and to close roads in specified circumstances or on specified occasions, in accordance with the rules:
(b) set out standards, specifications, or codes of practice for the design, construction, alteration, or maintenance of roads and related property:
(c) provide for the classification of roads according to their suitability for use by different classes of motor vehicles:
(d) set, or provide for the setting of, speed limits (including maximum, minimum, variable, and temporary speed limits) for roads throughout New Zealand or in a particular locality, which speed limits may vary according to vehicle classes, types of roads, locality, and time of year:
(e) empower road controlling authorities to set speed limits referred to in paragraph (d) for roads within their jurisdiction, and—
(i) set out criteria, requirements, and procedures to be complied with by road controlling authorities when setting speed limits:
(ii) authorise the Agency to change, or modify the application of, a speed limit that does not comply with the prescribed criteria, requirements, or procedures:
(f) provide that a road controlling authority may declare any of its roads or part of any such road to be a construction zone; prescribe the signs to be erected in a construction zone; and provide for the exemption from specified provisions of the rules of specified classes of motor vehicles while used within a construction zone:
(g) provide for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of traffic control devices:
(h) regulate or prohibit the use of reflective material on signs, hoardings, and similar structures that may pose a traffic hazard on any road.
Section 157(e)(ii): amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 50(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).