Third Session, 47th

General Assembly

63 Elizabeth II,

BILL 29

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HIGHWAY

TRAFFIC ACT

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE TONY

CORNECT

Minister of Service

Newfoundland and Labrador

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Highway Traffic Act to

require drivers to yield the

right-of-way on entering a roundabout, rotary traffic island or traffic circle to

traffic that is already in or passing around the roundabout, rotary traffic island

or traffic circle;

require drivers to yield the

right-of-way to traffic that is travelling to the left of the driver in a

roundabout, rotary traffic island or traffic circle;

introduce associated penalties;

and

group the provisions relating

to roundabouts, rotary traffic islands and traffic circles together in the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT

Analysis

S.100 Amdt.

Driving to left of center line

S.100.1 Added

Roundabouts

Sch. Amdt.

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cH-3

as amended

Section 100 of the Highway Traffic Act is

amended by repealing subsection (3).

2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 100 the following:

Roundabouts

100.1

(1) The

driver of a vehicle entering a roadway in or around a roundabout shall yield the

right-of-way to traffic in the roadway.

(2) A driver of a vehicle in a roadway in or

around a roundabout shall drive to the right of the centre of the roundabout except

where a traffic control device giving other directions is displayed.

(3) A driver of a

vehicle in a roadway in or around a roundabout shall yield the right-of-way to

traffic travelling in or around the roundabout to the left of the driver's vehicle

except where a traffic control device giving other directions is displayed.

(4) In this section, "roundabout"

includes a rotary traffic island and a traffic circle.

(1) The

Schedule to the Act is amended by

deleting the offence and penalty provisions relating to subsection 100(3) of

the Act.

(2) The

Schedule to the Act is amended by adding

immediately after the offence and penalty provisions relating to subsection 100(2)

of the Act the following:

100.1(1)

Failure

to yield right-of-way entering roundabout

14 days

2 days

100.1(2)

Failure

to drive to right of centre of roundabout

14 days

2 days

100.1(3)

Failure to yield right-of-way in roundabout to traffic

travelling to left of drivers vehicle

14 days

2 days

Commencement

4. This Act comes into force on January 1, 2015.

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