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Motor Vehicle Act (amended)

BILL NO. 84

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
53 Elizabeth II, 2004



Private Member's Bill



Motor Vehicle Act
(amended)



Kevin Deveaux
Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage



First Reading: May 18, 2004

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: May 18, 2004

Third Reading: October 7, 2004 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

Explanatory Note

This Bill permits left turns on red lights at the intersection of two one-way streets under similar circumstances as right turns are permitted on red lights.

An Act to Amend Chapter 293
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Motor Vehicle Act

1 Clause 93(2)(e) of Chapter 293 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Motor Vehicle Act, is amended by

(a) striking out "or" at the end of subclause (i);

(b) adding "or" at the end of subclause (ii); and

(c) adding immediately after subclause (ii) the following subclause:

(iii) if a stop is first made and the movement can be made in safety and is not prohibited by sign, proceed to make a left turn from a one-way highway into a one-way highway,


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