Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MOTOR TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993 (NO. 47 OF 1993) - SECT 17

17. Section 180A of the Principal Act is amended—

        (a)     by omitting from paragraph (3) (a) “name” and substituting “number”;

        (b)     by omitting from subparagraphs (3) (d) (i) and (iii) “Commissioner of Police” and substituting “chief police officer”;

        (c)     by omitting from subparagraph (3) (d) (v) all the words after “she” and substituting “may be convicted and ordered to pay such penalty and costs, and be subject to such further orders, as the Court determines”;

        (d)     by omitting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsections:

“(4) The chief police officer may, at any time, withdraw a traffic infringement notice by notice in writing served on the alleged infringer.

“(4A) The chief police officer shall not lay an information for an offence arising out of the circumstances on which a traffic infringement notice is based unless, within 28 days after the date of the notice, he or she serves on the alleged infringer—

        (a)     a notice under subsection (4); and

        (b)     a notice advising that such an information will be laid.”;

        (e)     by omitting from paragraph (5) (a) “Commissioner of Police” and substituting “chief police officer”;

    (f)     by omitting from subsections (6) and (11) “Commissioner of Police” and substituting “chief police officer”; and

    (g)     by omitting subsections (15), (16) and (17).