Motor Traffic Act (No 2) 1958 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 15 of 1958.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1957, as

amended by the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1958.

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Common-, wealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal	Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under
the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1955.

Dated this eleventh day of September, 1958.

W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

ALLEN FAIRHALL

Minister of State for the Interior.

MOTOR TRAFFIC ORDINANCE (NO. 2) 1958.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Motor Traffic short taie

Ordinance (No. 2) 1958.*	and citation.
(2 . ) The Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1957,f as amended by the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1958,J is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3 . ) Section one of the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1958 is

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amended by omitting sub-section ( 2 . ) .

(4 . ) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi- nance, may be cited as the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1958.

2 . Section four of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Interpretation,

inserting in sub-section (1.), after the definition of " repealed

Ordinance ", the following definition:—

" ' school crossing ' means a portion of the carriageway

of a public street—

(a) between two lines marked or painted
across or partly across the carriage-

way so that no point on one line

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazelle on 25th September, 1958.

t Ordinance No. 45, 1936, as amended by Nos. 25 and 41, 1938; No. 16, 1941; No. 14.

1942; Nos. 2 and 13, 1943; No. 3, 1945; Nos. 6 and 13. 1947; No. 7, 1950; No. 17, 1951;

No. 1, 1955; No. 6, 1956; and No. 19, 1957.

t N o . 10, 1958.

is less than eight feet or more than sixteen feet from the nearest point on the other line; and

(b) on or near which there is, for the time being, placed or displayed a flag or a sign bearing the words ' SCHOOL CROSSING' ;".

Driving on	3. Section fifty-six of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
public streets,
&c.	(a) by inserting in paragraph (q) of sub-section (1.), after the words " pedestrian crossing " (wherever occurring), the words "or school crossing"; and
(b) by inserting after paragraph (q) of sub-section

(1.) the following paragraph:—

" (qa) refrain from driving his vehicle upon a school crossing while a pedestrian is upon the school crossing; ".

4. After section one hundred and two A of the Principal

Ordinance the following section is inserted:—

Displaying	" 1 0 2 B . — ( 1 . )	For the purposes of this Ordinance,	the
" School
flags and

Crossing "	Minister may authorize a person or a class of persons to place
signs.	or display a flag or sign bearing the words ' SCHOOL CROSSING ' on or near a portion of the carriageway of a public street, being a portion between two lines marked or painted

sllit .t-i/i	across or partly across the carriageway as provided in the defini- tion of ' school crossing ' in sub-section (1.) of section four of this Ordinance.
" (2.) A person shall not place or display, on or near a portion of the carriageway of a public street, a flag or sign indicating or implying that the portion of the carriageway is a
class of persons, authorized under the last preceding sub-section school crossing unless he is a person, or a person included in a
or is acting under the direction of such a person.".

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.