7—Amendment of section 33—Road closing and exemptions for certain
events
Section 33(1)—delete subsection (1) and substitute:
(1) On the application
of any person interested, the Minister may declare an event to be an event to
which this section applies and may make an order directing—
(a) that
specified roads (being roads on which the event is to be held or roads that,
in the opinion of the Minister, should be closed for the purposes of the
event) be closed to traffic for a specified period; and
(b) that
persons taking part in the event be exempted, in relation to the specified
roads, from the duty to observe an enactment, regulation or by-law prescribing
a rule to be observed on roads by pedestrians or drivers of vehicles.