Roads and Public Places (Amendment) Act 1987 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Roads and Public Places (Amendment) Ordinance 1987

No. 64 of 1987

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 5 November 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GRAHAM RICHARDSON

Minister of State for the Environment and the
Arts for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for the Arts, Sport, the Environment,
Tourism and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Roads and Public Places Ordinance 1937

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Roads and Public Places (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.1

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Roads and Public Places Ordinance 1937.2

3.  After section 15R of the Principal Ordinance, the following sections are inserted:

Obstruction of loading zones

“15S.  (1)  In this section—

(a)‘loading zone’, ‘trailer’ and ‘vehicle’ have the same respective meanings as in the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936; and

(b)‘object’ does not include a vehicle or trailer.

“(2)  A person shall not, except in accordance with a permit, place an object in a loading zone in such a position, in such condition, or in such circumstances as to be likely to cause danger, obstruction or unreasonable inconvenience to other persons using or intending to use the loading zone.

Penalty:  $200.

Infringement notices

“15T.  The provisions of sections 159, 160 and 162 of the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936 apply in relation to a contravention of subsection 15S (2) of this Ordinance as if—

(a)that contravention were a parking infringement under subsection 158 (1) of the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936;

(b)a reference in any of those sections to a parking infringement were a reference to that contravention;

(c)a reference in any of those sections to a motor vehicle were a reference to the object in respect of which that contravention occurred; and

(d)a reference in any of those sections to any of the provisions of those sections were a reference to those provisions in their application in relation to that contravention.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6th November 1987.

2. No. 24, 1937 as amended by No. 21, 1959; No. 19, 1966; No. 72, 1976; No. 15, 1983.