Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MOTOR TRAFFIC (ALCOHOL AND DRUGS) (NO 63 OF 1992)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) (Amendment) Act 1992.  
   2.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977.1  
   3.      Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of “approved breath analysing instrument” and substituting the following definition:“ ‘approved breath analysis instrument' means an instrument of a type approved, or deemed to have been approved, under subsection 5 (1);”.  
   4.      Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   5.      Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “he takes the person into custody, the police” and substituting “so, the”.  
   6.      Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:  
   7.      Section 41 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   8.      (1) The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting “analysing” (wherever occurring) and substituting “analysis”:  
   9.      Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is repealed.  
   10.     Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, an instrument of a particular type was approved under subsection 5 (1) of the Principal Act, that type of instrument shall be deemed to have been approved under subsection 5 (1) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, and subsection 27 (1) of the Interpretation Act 1967 shall be taken to apply accordingly.  
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