Traffic Act Amendment Act 1971 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

TRAFFIC.

No. 33 of 1971.

AN ACT to amend the Traffic Act, 1919-1970.

[Assented to 6th December, 1971.]

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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Traffic Act =mem

Amendment Act, 1971.

(2) In this Act the Traffic Act, 1919-1970, is Reprinted as approved for

referred to as the principal Act.	reprint the
30th July,
1971.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Traffic Act, 1919-1971.

No. 33.] Traffic. [1971.

Commence- 2. (1) Section 3 of this Act shall come into

ment.

operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation.

(2) The provisions of this Act other than section 3 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

S. 27A

repealed.	3.	Section 27A of the principal Act is repealed.
S. 47
amended.	4.

Subsection (2) of section 47 of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (b) the following paragraphs-

(ba) requiring drivers and passengers of motor vehicles to wear or use the prescribed items of equipment;

(bb) imposing on the driver of any motor cycle, including a motor cycle with a side-car attached thereto, the duty of ensuring that any passenger riding in or on the motor cycle complies with the provisions of a regulation made under paragraph (ba) of this subsection. .