Traffic Act Amendment Act 1955 (WA)

No. 37.] Traffic. [1955.

TRAFFIC.

4° Elizabeth IL, No. XXXVII.

No. 37 of 1955.

AN ACT to amend the Traffic Act, 1919-1954.

[Assented to 28th November, 1955.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

snort title 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Traffic Act

and citation Amendment Act, 1955.

(2) In this Act the Traffic Act, 1919-1954,

Approved for

reprint, 26th	Act No. 60 of 1919 as reprinted with amendments
July, 1955.	to and including Act No. 47 of 1954 incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938,

is referred to as the principal Act.

1955.] Traffic. [No. 37

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Traffic Act, 1919-1955.

2. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section seventy-four the following section:-

74A. (1) The Governor, having regard to

subsection (2) of this section, may make regula-

S. 74A

added.

tions authorising the infliction and collection

by prescribed officers of the Public Service of

Regulations

penalties for offences against this Act prescribed

relating to

minor

as minor offences and may by the regulations

offences.

Cf. No. 18 of

prescribe

N.S.W.

1930. s. 265,

Cf. NO. 30 of

1918, s. 4;

(a) what offences against this Act are minor offences;	includes"This Act"
regulations.

(b)	modified penalties for first or subse- quent minor offences;
(c)	the method of notifying a person alleged to have committed a minor offence of the alleged offence and how it may be dealt with; and
(d)	the records to be kept and the manner of keeping them.

(2) Regulations made in pursuance of this

section

(a)	shall provide that a person alleged to have committed a minor offence may decline to have the offence dealt with under the regulations so made; and
(b)	shall have effect throughout the whole or such part or parts of the State as may be prescribed in the regulations.

(3) The maximum penalty that may be pre- scribed under this section shall not exceed the sum of five pounds.