Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 3) 1986 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 3) 1986

No. 34 of 1986

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 30 July 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for 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. 3) 1986.¹

Principal Ordinance

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

Vehicles to keep left, &c.

3.  Section 113 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:

“(2)  The driver of a motor vehicle shall not drive the motor vehicle on—

(a)a footpath; or

(b)any part of a public street other than—

(i)the carriageway of the public street; or

(ii)a part of the public street that forms the entrance-drive leading from the carriageway of the public street to a parcel of land.”.

4.  After section 212 of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted:

Exemption for postal vehicles

“212A.  (1)  In this section, ‘employee’, officer’ and ‘postal article’ have the same respective meanings as in the Postal Services Act 1975.

“(2)  In this section, a reference to a motor cycle shall be read as a reference to a motor cycle that has an engine capacity that does not exceed 110 millilitres.

“(3) Sub-section 113 (2) does not apply in relation to the riding of a motorcycle on a footpath if the rider of the motorcycle—

(a)is engaged, as an officer or employee, in the delivery of postal articles;

(b)does not ride the motorcycle at a speed exceeding 7 kilometres per hour; and

(c)takes the shortest practical route between points of delivery.

“(4)  Sub-section 151 (1), and sub-section 158 (2) (insofar as it prohibits the stopping or parking of a motor vehicle, where a kerb is constructed on the boundary of the carriageway of a public street, upon a part of the public street other than the carriageway of the public street or a part reserved for parking by a traffic sign), do not apply in relation to a person who stops or parks a motorcycle on a footpath if that person is engaged, as an officer or employee, in the delivery of postal articles.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 August 1986.

2. No. 45, 1936 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see Note 2 to No. 3, 1986 and see also Nos. 3 and 6, 1986.