Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1993 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs)

(Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1993

No. 50 of 1993

An Act to amend the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977

[Notified in ACT Gazette S165:  27 August 1993]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1993.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  Section 4 commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3)  If section 4 has not commenced before the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette, that provision, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977.1

Traffic infringement notices

4.  Section 26A of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (f) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(f)the prescribed penalty for that offence were, for the purposes of that section, that prescribed by the Motor Traffic Regulations;”.

note

1. Reprinted as at 30 September 1991.  See also Acts No. 63, 1992 and No. 22, 1993.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 1 April 1993]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1993