Western Australian Repealed Regulations Western Australian Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
In these by-laws,
unless the context otherwise requires —
“the Act” means the Local Government
Act 1960 (as amended) and, except as otherwise in this by-law provided,
words and expressions have the same meanings as they have in the Act;
“carriageway” means a portion of a
road that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, and
includes the shoulders, and areas, including embayments, at the side or centre
of the road, used for the standing or parking of vehicles; but does not
include a lane, right of way or driveway;
“footpath” includes that part of a
road set apart or constructed for the use of pedestrians and every established
footway, pavement, lane, thoroughfare or any other part of a road set apart
for the use of pedestrians, and, where any part of a road is not so set apart
or constructed, that portion on both sides of a road three metres in width
measured from the property line and extending alongside such road;
“intersection” includes the area
comprised within imaginary straight lines joining in succession the points of
transection of the property lines of two or more roads that meet each other;
except that where the property lines are curved at any corner, the point of
transection of the property lines shall be regarded as the point on the curve
nearest to the point at which those property lines, if extended in straight
lines from each end of the curve, would meet;
“junction” includes that part of a
road lying between imaginary straight lines at right angles to the road
commencing from the points of transection formed by its own property lines
with the property lines of a road which abuts thereon; except that where the
property lines are curved at any corner, the point of transection formed by
the property lines shall be determined in the same manner as is provided in
the definition of “intersection”;
"property line" means the boundary between the
land comprising a street and the land that abuts thereon.
[By-law 2 inserted by Gazette
12 February 1971 p.416; amended by Gazette 21 June 1974
p.2096.]