Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT 1936 (REPEALED) - SECT 124B

(1)     Where—

        (a)     a motor vehicle on a public street is approaching a local services motor omnibus that—

              (i)     is facing in the same direction as the motor vehicle; and

              (ii)     is stopped immediately adjacent to the left boundary of the carriageway of the public street;

        (b)     the driver of the local services motor omnibus is giving a signal prescribed for the purposes of subsection 136 (5);

        (c)     the maximum speed applicable in relation to the public street is not greater than 80 kilometres per hour; and

        (d)     the circumstances are such that there is a reasonable possibility that the local services motor omnibus will not be able to enter the line of traffic in which the motor vehicle is travelling unless the driver of the motor vehicle decreases the speed of the motor vehicle or stops it;

the driver of the motor vehicle shall not, without reasonable excuse, fail to decrease the speed of the motor vehicle or stop it so as to allow the local services motor omnibus to enter the line of traffic.

(2)     Subsection (1) does not apply where—

        (a)     the carriageway of the public street is divided into traffic lanes for vehicles travelling in the same direction as that in which the motor vehicle is being driven; and

        (b)     the motor vehicle is not travelling in the lane that is furthest to the left.