Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT 1936 (REPEALED) - SECT 147

(1)     A person shall not drive a motor vehicle in a school zone during a prescribed period at a speed exceeding 40 kilometres per hour from the direction which the school zone sign in relation to that zone is facing.

(2)     For the purposes of this section, a school zone sign erected on the side of a public street and a standard speed limit sign erected on the side of that public street or another public street having a junction or intersection with—

        (a)     the first-mentioned public street; or

        (b)     a public street having a junction or intersection with the first-mentioned public street;

shall be taken to face the same direction if each of those signs faces the direction from which a motor vehicle travelling on a journey that commenced before the beginning of, but included, the shortest practicable route between those signs would approach that sign.

(3)     This Part has effect in relation to a part of a public street that is a school zone at any time—

        (a)     other than during a prescribed period; or

        (b)     when the relevant speed limit sign referred to in the definition of school zone sign in subsection (4) is not displayed;

as if that part of that street were not a school zone.

(4)     In this section—

"prescribed period", in relation to a school zone, means a period commencing at 8.00 a.m. and ending at 4.00 p.m. on a day on which—

        (a)     the school located in proximity to that zone; or

        (b)     if 2 or more schools are so located—either or any of those schools;

is open for the attendance of scholars.

"school zone" means—

        (a)     where—

              (i)     a school zone sign is erected on the side of a public street; and

              (ii)     a standard speed limit sign is erected on the side of that public street (being the first such sign located after, and facing the same direction as, the school zone sign);

any part of that public street between those signs; or

        (b)     where—

              (i)     a school zone sign is erected on the side of a public street; and

              (ii)     a standard speed limit sign is erected on the side of another public street having a junction or intersection with—

(A)     the first-mentioned public street; or

(B)     a public street having a junction or intersection with the first-mentioned public street;

        (being the first such sign located after, and facing the same direction as, the school zone sign);

any part of either or any of those public streets that lies on the shortest practicable route between those signs.

"school zone sign" means a traffic sign inscribed with the words “SCHOOL ZONE” accompanied by a speed limit sign and another traffic sign bearing an inscription indicating particular periods.

"standard speed limit sign" means a speed limit sign other than a speed limit sign referred to in the definition of “school zone sign” in this subsection.