Road Traffic Code Amendment Regulations (No. 5) 1999 (WA)

7 December 19991 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5997

TRANSPORT

TR301*

Road Traffic Act 1974

Road Traffic Code Amendment Regulations

(No. 5) 1999

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

I.           Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic Code
Amendment Regulations (NO. 5) 1999.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the Tow Truck Amendment Regulations 1999 come into operation.

3.           The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Road Traffic
Code 1975* .

[* Reprinted as at 23 September 1997.

For amendments to 29 October 1999, see 1998 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 263-4, and
Gazette 5 February 1999.]

4.            Regulation 1803 amended

Regulation 1803 is amended as follows:

(a)	by deleting the subregulation designation (1);
(b)	in subregulation (1)(0 by deleting "on the Narrows Bridge or on any approach road to it";

of, a freeway, or on any other part of a freeway

(c) by repealing subregulation (2).

5.            Regulation 1804 amended

Regulation 1804 is amended as follows:

(a)	in subregulation (1)(b) by inserting after "freeway" — " except on a dual use path ";
(b)	by repealing subregulation (3) and substituting the following subregulation —

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(3) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a tow truck driver to, or on the median strip or any consolidated shoulder who is authorized by the Commissioner for Main

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enclosure in anticipation of an emergency or
breakdown, if the tow truck driver acts within the
authority and any limitations or conditions imposed by

that authority.

By Command of the Governor,

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