Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MOTOR TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 4) 1989 (NO. 21 OF 1989) - SECT 3

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

    (a)     by inserting after the definition of “passenger car derivative” in subsection (1) the following definitions:

“ ‘pedestrian' includes a person—

        (a)     in a perambulator or similar carriage;

        (b)     in a device designed for use as a toy; or

        (c)     in a wheelchair;

‘pedestrian crossing' means a portion of a public street—

        (a)     defined by road markings marked laterally across or partly across the carriageway comprising a series of white stripes alternating with areas of the surface of the carriageway with each stripe lying longitudinally to the public street; and

        (b)     indicated by a traffic sign inscribed with the word “CROSSING”;

and includes the areas of the surface of the carriageway lying between those white stripes;”;

    (b)     by adding “or a wheelchair” at the end of the definition of “vehicle” in subsection (1); and

    (c)     by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following definition:

“ ‘wheelchair' means a carriage—

        (a)     that is specially designed and constructed for use by a person suffering from a physical defect or disability; and

        (b)     that, if designed to use a form of power other than human power as the principal means of propulsion, is not capable of travelling, by means of that form of power, at a speed exceeding 7 kilometres per hour.”.