Lights on Vehicles Act 1872 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO QUINTO ET TRICESIMO SEXTO

A. D. 1872.

No. 16.

An Act to provide for the carrying of Lights by Vehicles at night.

[Assented to, 14th August, 1872.1

it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this	BE Australia, with the advice and consent of t lk Legislative
present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Every waggon, cart, carriage, or other vehicle which is driven Vehiclcs to carry

at any time from half an hour after sunset until half an hour before lamps.

sunrise along any street in the City of Adelaide, or along any

main road, or cross road within ten miles of the City of Adclaide,

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shall, except on the four nights immediately preceding the nigllt of

the full moon, the night of the full moon, and the two nights

imniediately following the night of the full moon, be provided with

at least one proper lamp, which shall be carried on the off or

right side of such vehicle, and shall be lighted and kept lighted	,
while such vehicle is so driven; and if any ~ u c h vehicle is driven through or along such street, road, or cross road at any time from half an hour after sunset until half an hour before sunrise, without having such lamp properly lighted as aforesaid, the proprietor or driver shall incur a penalty of not exceeding Forty Shillings.

2. Every vehicle which is left or placed upon such street or Vehicles Iatt on mnda

road after sunset and before sunrise, shall be provided with a lamp between sunrise to sunset ham rand a

lighted and fixed upon that paxt of the vehicle which is nearest the lamp.

centre of the street or road, and if any such vehicle shall be so l e f t 8 2 I$	. r ~ q & z
or placed unprovided as aforesaid, without having such lamp kept lighted until sunrise, then the person, who so leaves or places such vehicle upon such street or road, or the proprietor t h e o f,

shall

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shall forfeit and pity a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or render lawful the placing or leaving upon any street or

road of m y vehicle.

Before whom pro-

ceedings to be inati-

3. All proceedings for offences against this Act, or against any rule or regulation to be made by virtue hereof as aforesaid, in respect of which offences any pecuniary fine or penalty is imposed, shall be heard and determined, and such fines and penalties may be inflicted in a summary way by any Special Magistrate or two or more Justices, under the provisions of an Ordinance of the Governor and Legislative Council, No. 6 of 1880, " To facilitate the performance of the duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions, with respect to summary convictions and orders," or any Act hereafter to be in force relating to duties of .Justices of the Peace with respect to summary convictions and orders; and all convictions and orders may be enforced as in the said Ordinance is mentioned.

tuted.

Appeal to Local

4. There shall be an appeal from any conviction by any Special Magistrate or Justices fbr any offence against this Act, or from any order dismissing any information or complaint, or from any order for payment or otherwise, which appeal shall be to the Local Court of' Adelaide, of full jurisdiction only; and the proceed- ings on such appeal shall be conducted in a manner appointed by the said Ordidance, No. 6 of 1850, for appeals to Local Courts; but the Local Court of Adelaide aforesaid may make such order s s to payment of the costs of appeal as it shall think fit, although

Court.

such costs may exceed Ten Pounds.

No certiorari.

5. Save as herein provided, no order or proceeding of any Special

Magistrate or Justices of any Local Court, niacle under the

authority of this Act, shall be appealed again&,, or removed by certiorari or otherwise, into the Supreme Court of the said Province.

Moneys, how to be

6. All moneys that may be received for fines, to be levied as aforesaid, or for penalties, under and by virtue of this Act, shall be paid, one moiety thereof to the person layin5 the information, and the other moiety to the Corporation or District Council within whose limits the offence in respect of which such penalty i s imposed, was committed.

applied.

Number on lamp. 7. The owner or driver of every passenger vehicle plying for hire,

of whatsoever description the same may be, shall have painted, so as to be distinct and legible, on the front glass of each of the lamps belonging to such vehicle, the number of such vehicle, in figures one inch at least in length, and sE1al1 keep the same so painted, during the whole time that such vehicle shall ply for hire, or be used for the conveyance of passengers, and such lamps shall be used only for and with the vehicle, the number of which shall be so painted upon them; and any person offending against any of the provisions of

this

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this clause shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding Forty

Shillings for every such offence.

8. This Act shall take effect and come into force on the first Commencement of Act.

day of May, one thousand eight hundred arrd seventy-three.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen, I hereby

assent to this Bill.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor,

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