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Transport Amendment Act 1967

COOK ISLANDS

TRANSPORT AMENDMENT ACT 1967

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title and Commencement
2. Safety helmets

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1967, No.4

An Act to amend the Transport Act 1966 to provide for wearing of safety helmets by motor cyclists

(25 October 1967

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority o£ the same, as follows:

1. Short Title and commencement - (1) This Act may be cited as the Transport Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Transport Act 1966.

(2) This Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed for the commencement thereof by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

2. Safety helmets - The Transport Act 1966 is hereby amended by inserting, after section 86, the following section:

"86A. (1) No person shall drive a motorcycle on any road unless the driver and every other person carried (not being a person carried in a side car) are each wearing, and have properly fastened, on approved safety helmet.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section an approved safety helmet shall be one of the class, type, or make approved by the Chief of Police under subsection (3) of this section, and which is in a good condition.

(3) The Chief of Police may, by notice in the Gazette, approve any class, type, or make of safety helmet whether by reference to tradename, trademark, or otherwise, and may in like manner at any time revoke such approval.

(4) Every person who acts in contravention of subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars".

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