Motor Traffic Act 1943 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 2 of 1943.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1942.

BE it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the Executive Council, in pursuance of Ihe powers conferred by the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal	Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1938 and the Seat of
Government (Administration) Act 1910-1940, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance mav be ciled as the Motor Traffic ^<m tm<- v

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Ordinance 194.'!.*

(2.) The Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1942 is in this Ordi-

nance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance,

may be cited as the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1943.

2. Section twenty-nine of Ihe Principal Ordinance ia LostVu<<•etty,

amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word "Regis- trar " and inserting in its stead the words " Transport Officer, Transport Section, Department of the Interior, Kingston'"; and

(b) by omitting from sub-sections (2.) and (3.) the word "Registrar" (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the words " Transport Officer ".

3. After section seventy-seven of the Principal Ordinance the

following section is inserted:—

" 77A. A person shall not use, drive or have charge of Discharge ui

a motor vehicle which carries equipment for generating producer coals, io"

gas from which any flame, spark, live coal or any burning material iutted with'	is being or may be discharged, except as permitted by section ten B Kas prod"<"r-
of tli» Careless Use of Fire Ordinance 1936-1943, or which permits any leakage of producer gas.".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Qazette on 14th January, 1943.

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Amendment of

4 . The Four th Schedule to the Pr incipal Ordinance is amended " 21. Equipment for generat ing producer gas, when carried on a motor vehicle, shall be of a design approved by the Registrar, and shall be in such condition that no leakage of producer g'as occurs and that no flame, spark, live coal or any other burn ing material is or may be discharged therefrom, except as permitted by section ten B of the Careless Use of Fire Ordinance 1936-194?!.".

schedule.

by adding at the end thereof the following condition :—

Dated this twelfth day of J anua ry , 194:!.

G O W R I E

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

J . S. COLLINGS

Minister of State for the Interior.

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Oammonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.