AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No. 4) 1989
No. 21 of 1989
	
An Act to amend the Motor Traffic Act 1936
	[Notified in ACT Gazette S36:  22 November 1989]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No. 4) 1989.
Principal Act
2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Motor Traffic Act 1936.1
Interpretation
3.  Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—
	(a)	by inserting after the definition of “passenger car derivative” in subsection (1) the following definitions:
“ ‘pedestrian’ includes a person—
	(a)	in a perambulator or similar carriage;
	(b)	in a device designed for use as a toy; or
	(c)	in a wheelchair;
‘pedestrian crossing’ means a portion of a public street—
	(a)	defined by road markings marked laterally across or partly across the carriageway comprising a series of white stripes alternating with areas of the surface of the carriageway with each stripe lying longitudinally to the public street; and
	(b)	indicated by a traffic sign inscribed with the word “CROSSING”;
and includes the areas of the surface of the carriageway lying between those white stripes;”;
	(b)	by adding “or a wheelchair” at the end of the definition of “vehicle” in subsection (1); and
	(c)	by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following definition:
“ ‘wheelchair’ means a carriage—
	(a)	that is specially designed and constructed for use by a person suffering from a physical defect or disability; and
	(b)	that, if designed to use a form of power other than human power as the principal means of propulsion, is not capable of travelling, by means of that form of power, at a speed exceeding 7 kilometres per hour.”.
Pedestrian crossing
4.  Section 126 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (3).
Other parking offences
5.  Section 158 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraphs (1) (i) and (j) and substituting the following paragraphs:
	“(i)	on a pedestrian crossing;
	(j)	within 6 metres of a pedestrian crossing;”.

NOTE
1.	Ordinance No. 45, 1936 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Ordinance No. 6, 1989 and see also Ordinance Nos. 6, 8, 21 and 38, 1989; Act No. 20, 1989.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on  28 September 1989.]

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