AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MOTOR TRAFFIC ORDINANCE (NO. 3) 1971

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 37 of 1971

	The objectives of the Motor Traffic Ordinance (No. 3) 1971 are as follows –

•	to clarify the procedure for the issue of a special licence pursuant to which a person whose licence has been suspended or cancelled may be permitted to drive a motor vehicle in the course of his employment.  The amendment will ensure that the final decision for the issue of this licence will rest with the Court and that the Registrar of Motor Vehicles will be bound to produce a certificate if he has any objections to the issue of such a licence;

•	to enable any person aggrieved with a decision of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to appeal to a Court instead of the Minister, as at present provided;

•	to revise generally the provisions relating to traffic lights as a consequence of the necessity to amend these provisions so as to permit traffic lights with arrows which indicate the direction in which traffic is to travel at the more complicated intersections.

         R.J.H.
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(Minister’s initials)