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Bill 71, Keeping Students Safe on School Buses Act (Highway Traffic Amendment), 2021

Wynne, Kathleen O.

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NOTE

The

Bill makes it mandatory to have three-point seat belts on forward-facing seats

on school buses.

Bill 71 2021

Act to amend the Highway Traffic Act in respect of seat belts on school buses

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

(1) Subsection 106 (1) of the Highway Traffic

Act is amended by striking out “required under the Motor

Vehicle Safety Act (Canada) at the time that the vehicle was

manufactured or imported into Canada” and substituting “that at the time that

the vehicle was manufactured or imported into Canada was required under this

section or under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act

(Canada)”.

(2) Section

106 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsections:

School

buses

(7.1) A

school bus, as defined in subsection 175 (1), must be equipped in accordance

with the requirements set out in subsection 208 (5) of

Schedule IV to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (Canada) for buses other

than school, transit, perimeter-seating and prison buses.

Transition

(7.2) During

the period ending on December 31, 2026, subsection (7.1) does not apply to

school buses that were manufactured before September 1, 2022, unless,

(

a) the

school bus is used to transport children, as defined in subsection 175 (1),

such that any one child remains on the bus for longer than 45 minutes; or

(

b) the

school bus is used to transport children, as defined in subsection 175 (1), on,

(

i) those

parts of the King’s Highway known as Nos. 400, 400A, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405,

406, 409, 410, 412, 416, 417, 418, 420 and 427 with posted speed limits greater

than 80 kilometres per hour,

(ii) all

of the King’s Highway known as Highway 407 East,

(iii) all

of the private toll highway known as Highway 407,

(iv) all

of the King’s Highway known as the Queen Elizabeth Way,

(

v) those

parts of the highway known as the Don Valley Parkway, the Gardiner Expressway

and the E. C. Row Expressway, or

(vi) that

part of the King’s Highway known as the Conestoga Parkway from its westerly

limit at its intersection with the King’s Highway known as Nos. 7 and 8 to its

northerly limit at its intersection with the King’s Highway known as No. 86.

(3) Subsection

106 (7.2) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (2), is repealed.

Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into force on September

1, 2022.

(2) Subsection

1 (3) comes into force on January 1, 2028.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Keeping Students Safe

on School Buses Act (Highway Traffic Amendment ), 2021.

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

December 6, 2021

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December 6, 2021

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 71

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Highway Traffic Act

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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