Motor Traffic Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

Motor Traffic Regulations1 (Amendment)

Subordinate Law No. 15 of 19972

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following Regulations under the Motor Traffic Act 1936.

Dated 6 June 1997.

trevor kaine

Minister

gary humphries

Minister

Commencement

1.  These Regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.

Principal Regulations

2.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Motor Traffic Regulations.

Double demerit points

3.  The Principal Regulations have effect in relation to an offence committed, or alleged to have been committed, during the period commencing on 7 June 1997 and ending at the expiration of 9 June 1997 as if—

(a)subregulation 32 (5) had been amended by inserting “double” before “the number of demerit points”;

(b)subregulation 32 (6) had been omitted and the following subregulation substituted:

“(6)  For the purposes of subsection 180NB (1) of the Act, the prescribed number of demerit points in respect of a corresponding offence (in this subregulation referred to as an ‘inter-State offence’) is—

(a)except where paragraph (b) applies—the number of demerit points specified in column 5 of the item in Part II of the Schedule that relates to the offence to which the inter-State offence corresponds; and

(b)in the case of an inter-State offence under the law of New South Wales—double the number of demerit points so specified.”; and

(c)subregulation 32 (8) had been amended by inserting “double” before “the number of demerit points”.

NOTES

Principal Regulations

1. Reprinted as at 1 July 1995.  See also Subordinate Law No. 40, 1995; No. 13, 1996.

Notification

1. Notified in the ACT Gazette on 6 June 1997.

©  Australian Capital Territory 1997