Traffic Amendment (Disqualification for Speeding) Act 1997 (NSW)

New South Wales

Traffic Amendment (Disqualification

for Speeding) Act 1997 No 132

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New South Wales

Traffic Amendment (Disqualification

for Speeding) Act 1997 No 132

Act No 132, 1997

An Act to amend the Traffic Act 1909 to provide for the disqualification of drivers' licences for certain speeding offences committed during the 1997-98 Christmas-New Year holiday period. [Assented to 16 December 1997]

Section 1 Traffic Amendment (Disqualification for Speeding) Act 1997 No 132

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

1 Name of Act

This Act is the Traffic Amendment (Disqualification for

Speeding) Act 1997.

2      Commencement

This Act commences on the date of assent.

Amendment of Traffic Act 1909 No 5

The Traffic Act 1909 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Traffic Amendment (Disqualification for Speeding) Act 1997 No 132

Amendment Schedule 1

Schedule 1 Amendment

(Section 3)

Section 4AAB

Insert after section 4A:

4AAB Special provision—disqualification for speeding during

holiday period

(1)

In this section, holiday period means the period starting at midnight on 23 December 1997 and ending at midnight on 31 January 1998]

(2)

If a person:

(a)	commits an offence under section 4A ( l ) during the holiday period by driving a motor vehicle on any length of public street at a speed that exceeds the speed limit applicable to that length of public street by more than 30 kilometres per hour but not more than 45 kilometres per hour, and
(b)	is convicted of that offence by a court,

the person is disqualified from holding a driver's licence for 1 month without any specific order, or for such longer period as the court may order.

(3)

An offence referred to in subsection (2) (a) that is committed during the holiday period is a speeding offence prescribed for the purposes of section 11AB (3).

(4)

Any disqualification under this section is in addition to

any penalty imposed for the offence.

[Minister's second reading speech m ade in—

Legislative Assembly on 25 November 1997

Legislative Council on 2 December 1997]