AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Traffic (Amendment) Act 1999
No. 17 of 1999
	
An Act to amend the Traffic Act 1937
[Notified in ACT Gazette S16: 14 April 1999]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1. 	Short title
	This Act may be cited as the Traffic (Amendment) Act 1999.
2. 	Commencement
(1) 	Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.
(2) 	Section 4 commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
(3) 	If section 4 has not commenced before the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette, that section, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.
3. 	Principal Act
	In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Traffic Act 1937.1
4. 	Pedestrian traffic
	Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended—
	(a)	by omitting paragraph (b) from the definition of “traffic lights” in subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
	“(b)	a stop line at, near or below those traffic lights.”;
	(b)	by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:
“ ‘marked footcrossing’ means a portion of a public street at or near traffic lights lying between 2 parallel lines marked across a carriageway of a public street;”;
	(c)	by omitting from subsection (2) “carriage-way of a public street towards traffic lights erected at or near the other side of that public street” and substituting “marked footcrossing”; and
	(d)	by omitting paragraph (3) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:
	“(a)	at a marked footcrossing;”.
	
NOTE
Principal Act
1.	Reprinted as at 2 March 1998.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 26 November 1998]

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