Joint Committee on Road Safety II

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Establishment and Function

The Road Safety Committee was established under the Parliamentary Committees (Amendment) Act 1992 (No.64). The purpose of the committee was to:

"inquire into, consider and report to the Parliament on any proposal, matter or thing concerned with road trauma or safety on roads and related matters if the Committee is required or permitted so to do by or under this Act." [new S.4EE].

This was one of three Committees established by this Act which effectively replaced the Social Development Committee (VA 3126). The other two committees were the Community Development Committee (VA 3128) and the Crime Prevention Committee (VA 3129).

This is also the second parliamentary committee to have been constituted as the Road Safety Committee. The first Road Safety Committee was constituted as a joint select committee between 1967 and 1982 (VA 3127).

Joint Investigatory Committees

The Road Safety Committee II was a joint investigatory committee of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. As such it could comprise no more than nine members of whom no more than two could be appointed by the Council and no less than two by the Assembly.

According to the 1992 Amendment Act, the Road Safety Committee was also known as a Specific Purpose Committee of the Council and the Assembly. This distinguished it and other specific purpose committees (such as the Crime Prevention Committee) from the other more widely ranging investigatory committees (such as the Community Development Committee) known as Joint House Committees of the Council and the Assembly.

As a joint investigatory committee, the Road Safety Committee II could inquire into matters referred to it by a resolution of either House or by order of the Governor-In-Council. It could also inquire into, consider or report to Parliament on any annual report or document relevant to its functions laid before either House.

Recommendations made by the Road Safety Committee II (and any other joint investigatory committee other than the Public Bodies Review Committee) were not automatically accepted by Parliament. The responsible Minister, however, was required to table a report stating action to be taken regarding the recommendations within six months of the tabling of the report.


On the 21 April 2015, the Road Safety Committee was merged with the Law Reform, Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee (VA 5221) and became the Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee.



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