MOTOR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 27 OF 1998) 

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Commencement  
2. Insertion  

"PART IVA--TAXIS USING PUBLIC TRANSPORT ROUTES

MOTOR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 27 OF 1998)
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Commencement
     These Regulations commence on 27 July 1998.

MOTOR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 27 OF 1998)
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Insertion
     After Part IV of the Motor Traffic Regulations the following Part
is inserted:
"PART IVA--TAXIS USING PUBLIC TRANSPORT
ROUTES
"26A.      Traffic lights
     A taxi is exempt from the operation of sections 112A and 112B of the Act
in relation to item 1 of the table in section 112B of the Act where the traffic
lights referred to in section 112A of the Act are displaying a red circular
light and, at the same time, traffic lights facing the direction opposite to
which the taxi is facing are displaying a letter B in white light.
"26B.      General exemption
"(1)      A taxi is exempt from the operation of subsection 115C (1) of
the Act.
"(2)      A taxi is exempt from the operation of subsection 116 (1) of
the Act where the taxi is driven so that it crosses a road marking comprising an
unbroken line marked longitudinally on the carriageway of the public street
and--
         (a)     the unbroken line forms part of road markings used to divide the
carriageway of the public street into traffic lanes for vehicles travelling in
the same direction as that in which the taxi is being driven; and
         (b)     the taxi is driven across the unbroken line for the purpose of
entering or leaving a traffic lane on which there appears the words 'BUSES
TAXIS ONLY'.".
     

MOTOR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 27 OF 1998)
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NOTES

Principal Regulations

1.    Reprinted as at 22 May 1998.

Notification

2.    Notified in the ACT Gazette on 24 July 1998.

(c)  Australian Capital Territory
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MOTOR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 27 OF 1998)
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AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following Regulations
under the Motor Traffic Act 1936.
    Dated 17 July 1998.
BRENDAN SMYTHMinister
GARY HUMPHRIESMinister