The Dunedin City Council is confident a loophole in local government bylaws revealed by Transport Minister Simon Bridges was never an issue in Dunedin.
Council transportation operations group manager Gene Ollerenshaw said a quick review, after the loophole was revealed this week, had found Dunedin City Council's approach appeared to be sound.
Even if it wasn't, the loophole had been closed by the retrospective law change rushed through Parliament on Tuesday night, hours after details of the problem were made public, Mr Ollerenshaw said.
His comments came after the loophole - believed to affect up to 25 councils across New Zealand - was revealed by Mr Bridges on Tuesday.
Mr Ollerenshaw said speed limit bylaws made under the Local Government Act (LGA) had to be reviewed every five years.
Those that weren't risked being challenged in court, potentially making speed limits ''unenforceable'', he said.
It appeared some council speed limit bylaws referred to the LGA, while others referred to the Land Transport Act, or a ''combination'' of the two pieces of legislation, he said.
The DCC's bylaw referred to both, but had been reviewed as part of previous amendments setting new speed limits for specific roads across the city, he said.
News of the loophole had come as a surprise, but ''we don't think there's an issue from our side'', he said.
''The legislation's closed the loophole, so even - hypothetically - if we were on that list, or there was a problem, it's now resolved.''
