Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT 1936 (REPEALED) - SECT 122

    Where—

        (a)     a motor vehicle upon a public street is approaching, or has entered, the intersection of that public street and another public street not being—

              (i)     an intersection at, near or within which there is erected a traffic sign bearing the words “GIVE WAY” or the word “STOP” and facing the direction of vehicles approaching the intersection from that other public street;

              (ii)     an intersection at, near or above which there are traffic lights displaying a light of any description specified in the first column of the table in subsection 112B (1); or

              (iii)     an intersection at which a police officer in uniform is giving directions regulating or controlling the movement of traffic entering or passing through the intersection;

        (b)     another vehicle is approaching, or has entered, the same intersection from his or her right along that other public street; and

        (c)     the circumstances are such that there is a reasonable possibility that the vehicles might arrive at the same point simultaneously or that a dangerous situation might otherwise be created,

the driver of the motor vehicle shall either decrease the speed of his or her motor vehicle to such an extent, or stop his or her motor vehicle for such time, as is necessary to avoid that possibility or situation.