Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 8) 1985 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 8) 1985

No. 73 of 1985

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 12 December 1985.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 8) 1985.¹

Principal Ordinance

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

Design rules

3.  Section 7A of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by inserting after the definition of “design rule” in sub-section (1) the following definition:

“ ‘forward control passenger car’ means a motor car designed to seat not more than 9 adult persons (including the driver) which is so constructed that—

(a)the centre of the steering wheel is in the forward quarter of the total length of the vehicle;

(b)the gross vehicle weight of the vehicle does not exceed 3.5 tonnes; and

(c)the product of a number equal to the maximum number of seating positions and 68 is not less than 50 per cent of the difference between the gross vehicle weight and the unladen weight of the vehicle;”;

(b)by omitting paragraph (2) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)a reference to the gross vehicle weight of a vehicle shall be read as reference to the sum of the unladen weight of the vehicle and the weight of the maximum load that the vehicle is designed to carry;”: and

(c)by omitting paragraph (2) (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)a reference to a design rule in Part II of the Second Schedule shall be read as—

(i)in the case of a reference in items 1 to 21 (inclusive)—a reference to the design rule as in force on 1 May 1973;

(ii)in the case of a reference in item 22—a reference to the design rule as in force on 1 March 1984; and

(iii)in the case of a reference in items 23 and 24—a reference to the design rule as in force on 1 August 1984,

read together with the document known as ‘Australian Design Rules—Definitions’ as in force on whichever of the dates specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) is applicable in respect of that design rule; and”.

Second Schedule

4.  The Second Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is amended by adding at the end of Part II the following items:

“22   Motor vehicle manufactured on or after 1 January 1986, being a passenger car or a passenger car derivative but not being a forward control passenger car.

Compliance by the motor vehicle with the requirements of the design rule known as ‘Australian Design Rule No. 37—Vehicle Emission Control’.

23     1.  Motor vehicle manufactured on or after 1 January 1988, being—

(a)   a forward control passenger car; or

(b)   a multi-purpose passenger car;

      and not being a motor vehicle—

(c)   referred to in item 22; or

(d)   exceeding 2.7 tonnes gross vehicle weight.

      2.  Motor vehicle manufactured on or after 1 July 1988, being—

(a)   an omnibus; or

(b)   any other vehicle,

      and not being—

(c)   a motor cycle;

(d)   a motor vehicle referred to in item 22 or earlier in this item; or

(e)   a motor vehicle exceeding 2.7 tonnes gross vehicle weight.

Compliance by the motor vehicle with the requirements of the design rule known as ‘Australian Design Rule No. 40—Light Duty Vehicle Emission Control’.

24     1.  Motor vehicle manufacture on or after 1 January 1988, being—

(a)   a forward control passenger car; or

(b)   a multi-purpose passenger car,

      exceeding 2.7 tonnes gross vehicle weight.

      2.  Motor vehicle manufactured on or after 1 March 1988, being a motor cycle.

      3.  Motor vehicle manufactured on or after 1 July 1988, being a specially constructed vehicle or—

(a)   an omnibus; or

(b)   any other vehicle not referred to in item 22 or 23 or earlier in this item,

      exceeding 2.7 tonnes gross vehicle weight.”.

Compliance by the motor vehicle with the require-ments of the design rule known as ‘Australian Design Rule No. 41—Mandatory Operation on Unleaded Petrol’.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 December 1985.

2. No. 45, 1936 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see Note 2 to No. 2, 1985 and see also No. 2, 1985.