Traffic Act 1944 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 3 of 1944.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Traffic Ordinance 1937.

BE it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal	Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1938 and the Seat of
Government {Administration) Act 1910-1940, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Traffic Ordinance shortutie a n (* citation.

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(2.) The Traffic Ordinance 1937 is in this Ordinance referred

to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance,

may be cited as the Traffic Ordinance 1937-1944.

2. Section four of the Principal Ordinance is amended— Definitions.

(a) by inserting, after the definition of " animal", the

following definition:—

" ' approved ' means approved by an inspector; " ;

and

(b) by inserting in the definition of "public street", after the word "footpath" (first occurring), the words " (including a footpath within a colonnade) ".

3. Section eight of the Principal Ordinance is amended by vehicles, &c,

omitting the words " or rides " and inserting in their stead the driven, ridden

i • n i i >> or wheeled on

words ", rides or wheels ". footpaths.

4. Section nine of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Bicycles to inserting in paragraph (b), after the word "efficient", the word withbrakea,	u	n ,,	bells, ifec.
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approved .

5. After section twenty-eight of the Principal Ordinance the

following sections are inserted in Part III . :—

" 2 8 A . — (1.) A person shall not, without lawful excuse (proof Bicycles to be

whereof shall lie upon him), deposit a bicycle in any place in any bicycle racks.
public street within fifty yards of any bicycle rack provided by the

Minister for the purpose of parking bicycles in that street.

Penalty: Ten pounds.
(2.) A person shall not, without lawful excuse (proof whereof

shall lie upon him), deposit a bicycle in any place within fifty yards of any portion of a public baths, other than in a bicycle rack provided by the Minister for the purpose of parking bicycles in the vicinity of that public baths.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3rd February, 1944.

(3.) An inspector may impound any bicycle deposited in con- travention of sub-section (1.) or sub-section (2.) of this section, and may hand over any bicycle so impounded to the Transpor t Officer, Transpor t Section, Depar tment of the Interior , Kingston.

(4.) A bicycle which has been so impounded shall be restored
to the owner on payment by him of a storage fee of Five shillings.
(5.) Any bicycle not restored to the owner within six months

after the date upon which it was impounded may be sold or

disposed of by direction of the Minister by public auction.

Goodsnotto	" 2 8 B . — (1.) Except where there is no other convenient means
across	of access to a shop, a person shall not, without lawful excuse (proof
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' whereof shall lie upon him), carry or convey any goods across a footpath abutting on an entrance to a shop for the purpose of loading or unloading those goods into or from a motor vehicle or other vehicle.

Penalty: Ten pounds.
(2.) It shall be deemed to be a lawful excuse for the purposes

of this section if the person carrying or conveying the goods is a customer who has purchased those goods in the ordinary course of retail trade for use and not for re-sale.".

Dated this twenty-seventh day of January, 1944.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. S. COLLINGS

Minister of State for the Interior.

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.