Road Traffic Code Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1997 (WA)

1858	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	[I1 April 1997
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ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974

ROAD TRAFFIC CODE AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 4) 1997

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These re lations may be cited as the Road Trafic Code Amendment

Regulations 8 0. 4) 1997.

Regulation 401 amended

2.      Regulation 401 of the Road Traffic Code 1975" is amended -

in subregulation (2) (d), by inserting after "direction that", in the

(a) first place where it occurs, the following -

" , subject to subregulation (2a), "; and

(b) by inserting after subregulation (2) the following subregulation -

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may turn left at an intersection - (2a) Notwithstanding subregulation (2) (d), a driver at which there is a traffic-control signal facin the driver and displaying a circular red signaf alone; and

at or near which there is a traffic sign erected
to face the driver that is inscribed-with the

words "LEFT TURN ON RED PERMITTED

AFTER STOPPING",

before starting to make the turn, the driver -

By His Excellency's Command, J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.

(i)       but without passing over, the stop line stops his vehicle as near as possible .to,

associated with the traffic-control signal;
or

in the absence of a stop line, stops his

(ii)     vehicle, without entering the intersection,

appropriate traffic-control signal; at a point adjacent to the nearest

and

the driver can make the turn with safety.

C* Reprinted as at 26 July 1995.

For amendments to 18 February 1997 see 1995 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 241, and Gazette 19 and 25 Janua 1 November and 24 December 1996 and

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