Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1988 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1988

No. 10 of 1988

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

Dated 3 March 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1988.1

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936.2

Interpretation

3.  Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting “and” from paragraph (d) of the definition of “owner” in subsection (1); and

(b)by adding at the end of that definition the following word and paragraph:

“; and (f)in the case of an unregistered motor vehicle—a person who, solely or jointly with any other person, is entitled to immediate possession of it;”.

Recovery from owner or driver

4.  Section 87 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “him” and substituting “the nominal defendant and the amount of any costs or expenses properly incurred by the nominal defendant”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 March 1988.

2. No. 45, 1936 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see Note 2 to No. 9, 1988 and see also No. 9, 1988.