Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) Any person who, upon a public street, drives a motor vehicle—
(b) past any motor omnibus, for the time being stopped for the purpose of taking up or setting down passengers, to the danger of those passengers; or
(c) having more than 1 trailer attached; or
(d) having a trailer attached to it unless the trailer is securely fastened close to the rear of the motor vehicle; or
(da) having a trailer attached to it unless the registration number of the trailer is in a position clearly visible from the rear or either side of the trailer; or
(e) unless an efficient horn or other means of alarm is attached in a convenient position; or
(h) apparently used only for exhibiting an advertisement; or
(i) unless that motor vehicle (including all its equipment) is in such a condition as not to cause or be likely to cause injury or damage to, or endanger the safety of, any person on the motor vehicle, or any person, animal, property or thing on any public street or other place; or
(j) in or on which, or in or on a trailer attached to which, is carried a load or other thing which is so distributed, placed or carried as to cause or be likely to cause injury or damage to, or to endanger the safety of, a person on the vehicle, or persons, animals, property or things on the public street; or
(k) from which, or from a trailer attached to which, any article or thing falls to the roadway;
shall be guilty of an offence.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who drives a motor vehicle upon a public street with more than 1 trailer attached to it where the motor vehicle is being so driven in accordance with a permit granted under section 27 of the Motor Vehicles (Dimensions and Mass) Act 1990 .
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (d), where a trailer is, by virtue of the Regulations, required to be equipped with a safety chain, the trailer shall be deemed not to be securely fastened to the motor vehicle at any time at which the safety chain is not attached to the rear of the motor vehicle.
(3) A person who is guilty of an offence against paragraph (1) (b), (d), (i), (j) or (k) is punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.