Traffic (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1984 (ACT)

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Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1984

No. 43 of 1984

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 16 August 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Traffic Ordinance 1937

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1984.¹

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Traffic Ordinance 1937.²

Pedestrian traffic

3.  Section 26 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:

“(1A)  In this section, a reference consisting of a name of a traffic sign referred to in column 2 of an item in the Schedule immediately followed by the word “sign”, is a reference to a traffic sign that is substantially of the design set out in column 3 of that item.”;

(b)by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “or” (last occurring); and

(c)by omitting paragraph (2) (b) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(b)a DON’T WALK sign illuminated continuously or intermittently in red against a background that is not so illuminated; or

(c)a circular red or amber light, with or without an illuminated arrow, and without the word “WALK” illuminated or without an illuminated “WALK” sign.”.

Schedule

4.  The Principal Ordinance is amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE  Section 26

DESIGN OF CERTAIN PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC SIGNS

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Name of traffic sign	Column 3 Design of traffic sign
1	DON’T WALK
2	WALK

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 August 1984.

2. No. 32, 1937 as amended by No. 3, 1944; No. 2, 1955; No. 12, 1960; No. 9, 1964; No. 19, 1966; No. 39, 1974; Nos. 64 and 65, 1977; Nos. 3 and 46, 1978; No. 9, 1981; No. 12, 1982; No. 2, 1984.