Amendments of the Motor Traffic Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1955. No. 3.

Regulations under the Motor Traffic

Ordinance 1936-1955*

f W I L F R E D S E L W Y N K E N T H U G H E S , the Minister of State for

-*-, the Interior, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the

Mulur Traffic Ordinance .1936-1955, hereby make the following

Regulations.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of March, 1955.

W. S. K E N T H U G H E S

Minister of State for the Interior.

A M E N D M E N T S OF T H E MOTOR T R A F F I C R E G U L A T I O N S .

1. Regulation 5 of the Motor Traffic Regulations is amended by Definitions.

inserting after the definition of " Schedule " the following definition : -

" ' the City Area ' has the same meaning as in the City Area

Leases Ordinance 1936-1951;".

2. Regulation 34 of the Motor Traffic Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

a motor lorry the laden weight of which exceeds three tons, may be 8peed' " 34.— (1.) The maximum speed at which a motor vehicle, other than Limits of

driven upon a public street in the City Area is thirty miles per hour.

" (2.) The maximum speed at which a motor lorry the laden weight of which exceeds tliree tons may be driven upon a public street is that specified, according to the laden weight of the motor lorry and the location of the public street, in the following Table:—

Elsewhere than in

Laden Weight.	In the City Area.	the City Area.
Miles per hour.	Miles per hour.

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

Exceeding three tons but not exceeding seven tons	30	40
Exceeding seven tons but not exceeding thirteen tons	25	35
Exceeding thirteen tons . .	20	30

" (3.) The maximum speed at which a motor cycle carrying a person (not being a person carried in a .side-car) in addition to the driver may be driven upon a public street elsewhere than in the City Area is forty miles per hour.

" (4.) In this regulation, ' laden weight ' , in relation to a motor lorry, means the sum of (lie weight of the motor lorry and the weight of the load on the motor lorry.".

.Notified in tlie Cummonwctilth (J(i~el'c on .'list .March. 193

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