Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 4) 1988 (ACT)

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Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 4) 1988

No. 15 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 13 April 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. 4) 1988.1

Offences relating to equipment etc. of motor vehicles

2.  Section 189 of the Motor Traffic Ordinance 19362 is amended—

(a)by omitting paragraph (1) (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(d)having a trailer attached to it unless the trailer is securely fastened close to the rear of the motor vehicle; or

(da)having a trailer attached to it unless the registration number of the trailer is in a position clearly visible from the rear or either side of the trailer; or”;

(b)by omitting from subsection (2) “sub-paragraph (1) (d) (i)” and substituting “paragraph (1) (d)”; and

(c)by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(3)  A person who is guilty of an offence against paragraph (1) (b), (d), (i), (j) or (k) is punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding $2,000.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 April 1988.

2. No. 45, 1936 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see Note 2 to No. 9, 1988 and see also  Nos. 10 and 11, 1988.