Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Roads and Ports Legislation Amendment (Road Safety and Other Matters) Bill 2025

Introduction and first reading

Melissa HORNE (Williamstown – Minister for Ports and Freight, Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Minister for Health Infrastructure) (12:06): I move:

That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Road Safety Act 1986, the Road Management Act 2004, the Port Management Act 1995, the Marine Safety Act 2010, the Marine (Drug, Alcohol and Pollution Control) Act 1998, the Transport (Safety Schemes Compliance and Enforcement) Act 2014, the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983, the Transport Integration Act 2010 and other acts and for other purposes.

Motion agreed to.

Roma BRITNELL (South-West Coast) (12:07): I ask the minister to give us a brief explanation of the bill.

Melissa HORNE (Williamstown – Minister for Ports and Freight, Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Minister for Health Infrastructure) (12:07): The bill will deliver a range of legislative amendments to improve safety, achieve operational and administrative efficiencies and improve the effectiveness of transport laws. This bill will achieve this by improving enforcement practices and requirements to improve road safety outcomes, addressing known safety risks to workers and reliability at commercial ports by regulating the providers of mooring services, improving the management of certain road infrastructure and making processes for the consent of works on roads more effective, and making improvements to legislation that governs the operation of local ports and a range of other legislative amendments to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of transport legislation.

Read first time.

Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.