Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Services Act 1972 (ACT)

No. 32 of 1972

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Services

Ordinance 1955-1970.

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth , of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive	Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of
Government (Administration) Act 1910-1972.

Dated this third day of October, 1972.

PAUL HASLUCK Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for the Interior.

COMMONWEALTH MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES

ORDINANCE 1972

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Commonwealth

Motor Omnibus Services Ordinance 1972.*

(2.) The Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Services Ordinance

1955-19701 is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Services Ordin­ ance 1955-1972.

t Ordinance N o . 12, 1955, as amended by No. 21, 1959; No. 21, 1954: No. 19, 1966; and N o . 42, 1970.

2.  Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—•

(a) by inserting before the definition of " Commonwealth motor omnibus service" the following definition:—

" ' bus stop sign ' means a sign the painting or marking of which has been, or is to be deemed to have been, authorized by paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 4A of this Ordinance;"; and

(b) by omitting the definition of " stopping place " and insert­ ing in its stead the following definition:—

" ' stopping place' means a place at which there is a

bus stop sign.".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5 October 1972.

3. Section 4A of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting
sub-section (7.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

" (7.) Where a road or part of a road forms part of the route taken by omnibuses engaged in two or more services under this Ordin­ ance, the Minister may, in giving an authority under sub-section (1.) of this section for the placing of a sign on that road or part of that road, direct that the sign shall include an indication with respect to the service or services for which it is a section sign or a bus stop sign, as the case requires, and, where a sign includes such an indication, the sign is a section sign or a bus stop sign, as the case requires, only for the service or services so indicated.".

4. Section 4D of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the

following section inserted in its stead:—

" 4D. Unless the contrary is proved—

(a)

evidence in any proceedings that a sign consisting of the word ' Section' is painted or marked on a shed, post or notice board placed at the side of a road on the route taken by omnibuses engaged in an omnibus service under this Ordinance is evidence that the sign is a section sign, that the sign is in a form approved by the Minister and that the shed, post or notice board on which it is painted or marked has been placed at that place by the authority of the Minister;

(b)

evidence in any proceedings that a sign consisting of the words ' Bus Stop' or the words ' Signal Bus' painted or marked on a shed, post or notice board placed at the side of a road on the route taken by omnibuses engaged in an omnibus service under this Ordinance is evidence that the place where the sign is so painted or marked is a stopping place, that the sign is in a form approved by the Minister and that the shed, post or notice board on which it is painted or marked has been placed at that place

by the authority of the Minister; and

(c) evidence in any proceedings that a sign referred to in either of the last two preceding paragraphs includes an indication with respect to the omnibus service or services for which it is a section sign or bus stop sign, as the case requires, is evidence that that sign includes that indica­ tion at the direction of the Minister.".