South Australia
Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Speed Limits on Beaches) Amendment Regulations 2023
under the Road Traffic Act 1961

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014
3	Insertion of regulation 8A
8A	Speed limits applying to driving on beaches

Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Speed Limits on Beaches) Amendment Regulations 2023.
2—Commencement
These regulations come into operation on 1 December 2023.

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014
3—Insertion of regulation 8A
After regulation 8 insert:
8A—Speed limits applying to driving on beaches
	(1)	Despite anything in Part 3 of the Rules (Speed limits), a driver must not drive a motor vehicle on a beach at a speed exceeding the speed limit indicated by an applicable speed limit sign or, if no speed limit sign applies, at a speed exceeding the prescribed speed limit (beaches).
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
	(2)	For the purposes of subregulation (1), the prescribed speed limit (beaches) is as follows:
	(a)	when within 50 metres of a person—25 kilometres per hour;
	(b)	in any other case—40 kilometres per hour.
	(3)	In this regulation—
beach means the area of the coast constituted of pebbles, sand or mudflats, and includes—
	(a)	land that is within the highest astronomical tide and the lowest astronomical tide; and
	(b)	the backshore or soft sand extending inland from the highest astronomical tide; and
	(c)	any sandy or vegetated dunes adjacent to the seashore.
Editorial note—
As required by section 10AA(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 1978, the Minister has certified that, in the Minister's opinion, it is necessary or appropriate that these regulations come into operation as set out in these regulations.
Made by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
on 12 October 2023
No 102 of 2023