Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 1995 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 1995

No. 8 of 1995

An Act to amend the Motor Traffic Act 1936

[Notified in ACT Gazette S135: 30 June 1995]

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

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 1995.

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 Act 1936.1

Substitution

4.  Section 112C of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

Left turn at intersection controlled by traffic lights

“112C.  (1)  Notwithstanding section 112B, but subject to section 112D, where a traffic sign bearing the words ‘TURN LEFT AT ANY TIME WITH CARE’ is erected at an intersection or junction of a public street with another public street at which traffic lights are erected, the driver of a motor vehicle approaching the intersection or junction from the direction in which the sign is facing may turn the motor vehicle to his or her left into another public street.

“(2)  Notwithstanding section 112B but subject to section 112D, where a traffic sign bearing the words ‘LEFT TURN ON RED LIGHT PERMITTED AFTER STOPPING’ is erected at an intersection or junction of a public street with another public street at which traffic lights are erected, the driver of a motor vehicle approaching the intersection or junction from the direction in which the sign is facing may, after having stopped before the traffic lights, turn the motor vehicle to his or her left into another public street .”.

NOTE

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1995.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 3 May 1995]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1995