Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 5) 1990 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No. 5) 1990

No. 40 of 1990

An Act to amend the Motor Traffic Act 1936

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 76:  7 November 1990]

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 (No. 5) 1990.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  Section 3 commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3)  If section 3 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 section, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.

Substitution

3. Section 36 of the Motor Traffic Act 19361 is repealed and the following section substituted:

Taxi fares

“36.  (1)  The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, determine the maximum fares chargeable for the hiring of a taxi.

“(2) A notice under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.”.

NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 45, 1936 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 1 to Act No. 4, 1990 and see also Acts Nos. 4, 14, 37 and 38, 1990.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 20 September 1990.]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1990