Traffic Act 1964 (ACT)

64 No. 9 Traffic Ordinance 1964

TRAFFIC

No. 9 of 1964.

An Ordinance to amend the Traffic Ordinance

1937-1960.

Short title 1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Traffic

and citation. Q r d i n a n c e 1 9 6 4 *

(2.) The Traffic Ordinance 1937-1960f 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 1937-1964.

commence- 2 . This Ordinance shall come into operation on the four- teenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.

Definition..	3.	Section four of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
( a ) by adding at the end of the definition of " bicycle " the words ", but does not include a toy carriage ";
( 6 ) by inserting after the definition of " b i c y c l e " the

following definition:—

" ' carriage-way ' means that par t of a public
street formed for vehicular traffic, and

includes the gutter, if any, of the public

s t ree t ;" ; and

(c ) by omitting the definitions of " inspector" , " m o t o r vehic le" , "off icer" , " p u b l i c s t r ee t " and " Reg is t ra r" and inserting in their stead the following definitions:—

t Ordinance No. 32, 1937, as amended by No. 3, 1944; No. 2, 1955; and No. 12, 1960.

" ' inspector ' , ' motor vehicle ' , ' officer \

' public s t ree t ' and ' the Regis t ra r ' have the same respective meanings as in the Motor Traffic Ordinance;

" ' pedes t r ian ' includes a person on a toy carriage, in a perambulator or in a carriage (not being a vehicle or a motor vehicle) specially designed and con- structed for the use of a person who is suffering from a physical defect or dis- ability;

" ' the Motor Traffic Ordinance ' means the

Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936 -1964 ; " .

* Made on 20 August, 1964; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21 August, 1964, and

commenced on 14 September, 1964 (see section 2).

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4. Section eighteen of the Principal Ordinance is width of

repealed.	y6bkk'-
5. Section twenty-five of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following sections are inserted in its stead:—

"25.—(1.) The provisions of Part VI. (other than sub- Application of

section (2.) of section fifty-six and section fifty-six v) , Part fhe Motor VIB. (other than sections fifty-six AKA, fifty-six AR, fifty-six AS ordbanc*. and fifty-six AT) and section seventy-eight c of the Motor Traffic
Ordinance apply, subject to this Ordinance, to the driver of a vehicle, or to the rider of a bicycle or animal, in the same manner as those provisions apply to the driver of a motor vehicle.
" (2.) The provisions of the Motor Traffic Ordinance applied by the last preceding sub-section apply so far as they are applic- able and, in that application—

(a) a reference in those provisions to a driver includes,
as the case requires, a reference to a rider;

(b) a reference in those provisions to a motor vehicle shall be read as a reference to a vehicle, bicycle or animal;
(c) the expression ' this Ordinance' in those provisions (other than section fifty-six L) shall be read as referring to the Motor Traffic Ordinance in its application under this section; and

(d) other expressions in those provisions have the same
meanings as provided in the Motor Traffic
Ordinance for the purposes of those provisions.
" (3.) The driver of a vehicle or the rider of a bicycle or
animal upon a public street who contravenes or fails to comply

with a provision of the Motor Traffic Ordinance applicable

upon conviction to the penalty provided in that provision, or to him by virtue of this section commits an offence and is liable

where no penalty is expressly provided in that provision, to a
penalty not exceeding One hundred pounds or imprisonment

for six months.

" 2 6 . ( 1 . ) I n th i s Sec t ion Regulation of

. . . , • ,• pedestrian

intersection , in relation to a public street, means traffic.

an intersection or junction of that public street

with another public street;

' pedestrian crossing' has the same meaning as in
section fifty-six N of the Motor Traffic Ordinance;

' road marking' has the same meaning as in section four

of that Ordinance;

' traffic lights' has the same meaning as in section

fifty-six YA of that Ordinance.

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" (2.) A pedestrian shall not step onto a carriage-way of a public street towards traffic lights erected at or near the other side of that public street while the traffic lights are display- ing in his direction—

(a)
the words ' DON'T WALK ' in red light, with or with-
out any other coloured light or lighted symbol; or
(b) a circular red or amber light, or a circular red
light together with a circular amber light, with

or without an arrow in green light, but without

the word ' WALK ' in green light.

" (3.) A pedestrian shall not cross a carriage-way of a public

street in which traffic lights are erected elsewhere than—

(a) within road markings comprising lines marked across or partly across the carriage-way at or near those traffic lights or at or near any other traffic lights erected in that public street;

(b) at an intersection of that public street;
(c) at any place in a part of that public street between

any intersections of that public street that are not controlled by traffic lights, being a part of that public street in which traffic lights are not erected; or

(d) on a pedestrian crossing marked off in that public

street.

" (4.) A pedestrian shall cross a public street by the shortest

and most direct route.".

6. Section twenty-nine of the Principal Ordinance is

amended—

(a) by omitting the proviso; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-

section:—

" (2.) A person shall not drive a vehicle upon a public street, or cause or permit a vehicle to be upon a public street, between the hours of sunset and sunrise unless at least two clean and unobscured reflectors are affixed, on opposite sides of the rear of the vehicle, in the positions in which they would be required to be affixed under section seventy-four A of the Motor Traffic Ordinance if the vehicle were a motor vehicle.".