Motor Vehicle Act (amended)

BILL NO. 254

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005

Government Bill

Motor Vehicle Act
(amended)

The Honourable Ronald S. Russell, C.D.
Minister of Transportation and Public Works

First Reading: October 20, 2005

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading: October 25, 2005

Third Reading: November 3, 2005 (WITH COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS) (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

Explanatory Notes

Clause 1 provides that the Registrar of Motor Vehicles shall require that a person whose driver's licence or privileges of obtaining a driver's licence has been revoked for an alcohol-related driving offence participate in an ignition interlock and monitoring program before the person's licence is re-instated.

Clause 2 corrects a numbering error.

Clause 3 doubles the fines for exceeding the speed limit in a school zone or within a temporary work area on a highway. Clause 4 provides that this Act comes into force on proclamation.

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

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 (1) Subsection 67(11) of Chapter 293 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Motor Vehicle Act, as amended by Chapter 34 of the Acts of 1996, Chapter 32 of the Acts of 1998 and Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2002, is further amended by adding "or ignition interlock and monitoring program" immediately after "program" in the fourth line.

(2) Subsection 67(13) of Chapter 293 is amended by adding "and "ignition interlock and monitoring program" " immediately before "and" in the third line.

2 Clause 93(2)(e) of Chapter 293, as amended by Chapters 41 and 42 of the Acts of 2004, is further amended by

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

(b) adding "or" at the end of subclause (iii) as enacted by Chapter 41; and

3 Chapter 293 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 300 the following Section:

300A Notwithstanding Sections 292 to 299A, any person who exceeds the maximum rate of speed in a school area referred to in Section 103 or on a portion of a highway designated as a temporary work area is liable to a fine not exceeding double the maximum set out in those Sections and, where there is a minimum fine, is liable to double the minimum fine.

4 This Act comes into force on such day as the Governor in Council orders and declares by proclamation.

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