Road Traffic Amendment (Power Assisted Pedal Cycles) Act 1991 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ROAD T FFIC ENDMENT

(POWER ASSISTED PEDAL

CYCLES) ACT 1991

No. 50 of 1991

AN ACT to amend the Road Traffic Act 1974.

[Assented to 17 December 19911

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Amendment (Power

Assisted Pedal Cycles) Act 1991.

No. 50] Road Traffic Amendment (Power Assisted

Pedal Cycles) Act 1991

Commencement

2.     This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

Section 5 amended

3. Section 5 of the Road Traffic Act 1974* is amended —

(a) in the definition of "moped" by inserting after "pedal cycle" the following —

, but does not include a power assisted pedal

cycle

(b) in the definition of "motor vehicle" by inserting after "to a motor vehicle" the following —

CC

, but does not include a power assisted pedal

cycle

and

(c) by inserting after the definition of "permit" the following definition —

CC

"power assisted pedal cycle" means a vehicle designed to be propelled through a mechanism operated solely by human power, to which is attached one or more auxiliary propulsion motors having a combined maximum output not exceeding 200 watts;

[*Reprinted as at 4 April 1991.

Amended by Gazette 23 August 1991.]