Road Traffic Code Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2007 (WA)

2 October 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4975

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Road Traffic Act 1974

Road Traffic Code Amendment Regulations

(No. 3) 2007

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Road Traffic Code Amendment
Regulations (No. 3) 2007.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows:

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on 1 October 2007.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendment in these regulations is to the Road Traffic
Code 2000.

4.            Regulation 86 amended

(1) Regulation 86(1) and (2) are amended as follows:

(a)

by deleting "vehicle" in the first and second place where " truck ";

could have reached that destination would

(b)	by deleting "(except the driver of a bus)";
(c)	by deleting "the driver's" and inserting instead — " that ".

(2) After regulation 86(3) the following subregulation is inserted

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(4) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against
subregulation (1), (2) or (3) if the driver satisfies the
court that his or her destination lay beyond a "no

trucks" sign and —

(a)	there was no other route by which the driver's truck could reach that destination; or
(b)	any other route by which the driver's truck

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require the truck to pass another "no trucks"

sign.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.