AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance 1986
No. 3 of 1986
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 20 March 1986.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. SCHOLES
Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.1
Principal Ordinance
2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936.2
Licences of public motor vehicles
3.  Section 27 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by inserting in paragraph (1) (a) “, on payment of the sum of $80,000,” before “a licence”;
	(b)	by inserting after sub-section (2A) the following sub-section:
  “(2B)  The Registrar shall not grant a taxi licence if the number of taxi licences in force would exceed 149 or such higher number as the Minister, by instrument in writing published in the Gazette, from time to time determines.”; and
	(c)	by omitting from sub-section (4) “grant or”.
Licences to use motor car as private hire car
4.  Section 28 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by inserting in sub-section (1) “, on payment of the sum of $60,000,” after “Registrar may”;
	(b)	by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-section:
  “(2A) The Registrar shall not grant a private hire care licence if the number of private hire car licences in force would exceed 22 or such higher number as the Minister, by instrument in writing published in the Gazette, from time to time determines.”; and
	(c)	by omitting from sub-section (4) “grant or”.
Schedule 6
5.  Schedule 6 to the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from item 3 “Sub-section 22 (4)” and substituting “Sub-section 22 (2)”.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 March 1986.
2.	No. 45, 1936 as amended by Nos. 25 and 41, 1938; No. 16, 1941; No. 14, 1942; Nos. 2 and 13, 1943; No. 3, 1945; Nos. 6 and 13, 1947; No. 7, 1950; No. 17, 1951; Nos. 1 and 7, 1955; No. 6, 1956; No. 19, 1957; Nos. 10 and 15, 1958; Nos. 7 and 21, 1959; No. 11, 1960; Nos. 16 and 17, 1962; No. 21, 1963; No. 8, 1964; Nos. 9 and 13, 1965; No. 19, 1966 (as amended by No. 36, 1967); No. 2, 1968; Nos. 27 and 29, 1969; No. 27, 1970; Nos. 13, 17, 37 and 39, 1971; Nos. 3 and 10, 1972; Nos. 1, 32, 38, 41, 42 and 57, 1973; Nos. 4, 12, 23, 37, 48 and 49, 1974; Nos. 3, 16, 23, 31, 52 and 54, 1976; Nos. 16, 23, 30, 37, 51 and 59, 1977; Nos. 2, 31 and 46, 1978; No. 32, 1979; No. 33, 1980; Nos. 3, 8, 30, 31 and 33, 1981; No. 40, 1981 (as amended by No. 43, 1981); Nos. 6, 49, 50, 64 and 96, 1982; Nos. 14, 18 and 21, 1983; Nos. 1, 15, 44, 45 and 54, 1984; Nos. 2, 30, 31, 35, 49, 50, 63 and 73, 1985.