Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 5) 1984 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 5) 1984

No. 54 of 1984

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 26 September 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories

and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 5) 1984.¹

2.  Section 145 of the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936² is repealed and the following section substituted:

Speed limit for heavy vehicles

“145.  A person shall not drive a motor vehicle the laden weight of which exceeds 4.5 tonnes, being a motor vehicle other than a motor omnibus, upon a public street at a speed exceeding 80 kilometres per hour.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 October 1984.

2. No. 45, 1936 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see Note 2 to No. 1, 1984 and see also Nos. 1, 15, 44 and 45, 1984.