Traffic Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

1959.] Traffic. [No. 12.

TRAFFIC.

8 0 Elizabeth II., No. XII.

No. 12 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Traffic Act, 1919-1958.

[Assented to 25th September, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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:—

Amendment Act, 1959.	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Traffic Act = LI tiattlieo n.
(2) In this Act the Traffic Act, 1919-1958, isReprinted asapproved for

referred to as the principal Act.	reprint
23/4/58 in
Vol. 12 of
the Reprinted Acts and
(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Traffic Act, 1919-1959.	amended by
Acts Nos. 57
and 59 of
1958.

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S. 5

amended. 2. Subsection (1) of section five of the principal

Act is amended by

(a)	adding after the subsection designation (1) the paragraph designation (a);
(b)	adding after the word, "Act" being the last word in the subsection the words, "but a license is not required for an agricultural implement which is being hauled or towed on a road by a vehicle for which the owner is the holder of the requisite vehicle license"; and
(c)	adding a paragraph as follows

(b) For the purposes of this section, "agricultural implement" means an implement or machine designed and used for ploughing, cultivation, spreading fertiliser, sowing seed, spraying, har- vesting crops, chaff cutting and other agricultural operations, whether hauled or towed by animal or mechanical power and which is owned by a person carrying on the business of farming or grazing.

S. 16 3.

Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section sixteen of the principal Act is amended by deleting the passage commencing with the word, "any" in line two and ending with the word, "of" where firstly appearing in line three.

amended.

S.24

amended. 4. Section twenty-four of the principal Act is

amended by

(a) substituting for the words, "the preceding section" in lines three and four of subsec- tion (1), the words, "section twenty-three of this Act";

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(b) substituting for the words, "the preceding section" in line nine of subsection (3), the words, "section twenty-three of this Act";

and

(c) substituting for the words, "the last preced- ing section" in lines two and three of subsection (4), the words, "section twenty- three of this Act".

Section forty-six A of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the passage, ", includ- ing the load," in lines one and two, the passage, "(including the load but not including any rear vision mirror or signalling devices fitted to the vehicle in accordance with the regulations)".	S. 96A
amended.

5.

6.	Section forty-seven of the principal Act is	S. 47
amended.

amended by

(a)	substituting for the words, "pillion riding" in line two of subparagraph (z) of paragraph (i) of subsection (1), the words, "the owners and drivers of vehicles and passengers in or on vehicles";
(b)	substituting for the passage commencing with the word, "subparagraphs" in lines twelve and thirteen and ending with the word, "principal" in line fifteen of subparagraph (ze) of paragraph (i) of subsection (1), the passage, "paragraphs (b) to (d) both inclusive, in subsection (5) of section eleven of this";
(c)	adding after the paragraph designation, "(v)" of subsection (1), the subparagraph designation, "(a)";
(d)	adding after the word, "attending" in line two of paragraph (v) of subsection (1), the passage, ", travelling in or entering";

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(e) adding to paragraph (v) of subsection (1) a subparagraph as follows

(b) Empower the drivers and conductors of passenger vehicles to remove therefrom such persons or class of persons as are prescribed by the regulations;

and

(f) adding after paragraph (vii) of subsection (1) a paragraph as follows-

(viia) Prescribe how vehicles used in hill climbing tests, speed races or tests, driving - or speed exhibitions or reliability tests, whether or not the races, tests or exhibitions are conducted or held on or off roads, are to be equipped with safety appliances or gear for the protec- tion of the drivers or passengers in or on the vehicles; .