AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF THE MOTOR OMNIBUS REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 20 of 1981

The Motor Omnibus Regulations (the Principal Regulations) made pursuant to the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936 are amended by repealing provisions relating to eligibility criteria for bus drivers’ licences.  The matters contained in the repealed provisions are provided for in the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936.  The amending Regulations also repeal a provision in the Principal Regulations prohibiting cyclists from attaching themselves to buses.  This matter is provided for in the Traffic Ordinance 1937.

Regulation 1 of the amending Regulations effects a minor consequential amendment to regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations.

Regulation 2 repeals Division 1 of Part IV of the Principal Regulations which Division covers the eligibility criteria for bus drivers’ licences.

Regulation 3 repeals regulation 94 of the Principal Regulations which prohibits cyclists from holding onto buses.