The House went into urgency last week following fears that thousands of speeding tickets issued through local councils were invalid.
The Land Transport (Speed Limits Validations and Other Matters) Bill — which sought to amend a technicality in the law that had rendered many speed limits invalid — passed under urgency last week.
The prior law under the Transport Act meant councils were responsible for setting speed limits on any roads without a 100km/hr limit. However, the law required the limits to be restated every five years, a technicality that many councils either overlooked or forgot about. As a result, any speed tickets that were issued on roads with expired speeds were legally invalid.
The newly passed bill retrospectively dissolves the requirement for councils to review speed limits.