SAMOA

ROAD TRAFFIC AMENDMENT ACT

2003, No. 2

Arrangement of Provisions

1. Short title and commencement 
2. Accountability of the Transport Control Board
3. Functions and Annual Report of the Board
4. Power to make traffic orders
5. Validity of certain traffic orders
6. Consequential amendment

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2003, No. 2

AN ACT to amend the Road Traffic Ordinance 1960 concerning the Transport Control Board, the validity of certain traffic orders and to provide for consequential amendment of the Road Transport and Traffic Control Act 1990.

[28 January 2003]

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament assembled as follows:-

1. Short title and commencement - (1) This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Amendment Act 2003 and save for section 5 shall be read with and form part of the Road Traffic Ordinance 1960 (the principal Act).

(2) This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to by the Head of State.

(3) Notice of commencement of this Act shall be published in Samoan and English in the Savali and one other newspaper circulating in Samoa.

2. Accountability of the Transport Control Board - Section 51 of the principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (3):

"(4) The Board shall report to and be accountable to the Minister in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance."

3. Functions and Annual Report of the Board - Section 53 of the principal Act is amended:

(1) By inserting the expression "(1)" before the words "The Board shall".

(2) By replacing the full stop at the end of paragraph (d) with a semi-colon.

(3) By inserting the following after paragraph (d):

"(e) With the consent of the Minister, make traffic regulations, orders and rules in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance; and

(f) By September 30th of each year prepare and provide to the Minister an Annual Report of the work of the Board for the 12 months ending on June 30th.

(2) The Minister shall table the Annual Report of the Board in Parliament within 14 days of the Minister receiving the Annual Report the Annual Report and, where Parliament is not sitting, within seven days of the commencement of the next sitting."

4. Power to make traffic orders - Section 73(1) of the principal Act is amended by inserting the following after paragraph (k):

"(1) Such other purposes concerning any area of traffic regulation, traffic management and road usage not provided for under paragraphs (a) to (k) of this subsection."

5. Validity of certain traffic orders - The Road Traffic Orders 1994 SR 1993/9 shall be taken for all purposes to have been validly made and to have full force and effect.

6. Consequential amendment - Section 4 of the Road Transport and Traffic Control Act 1990 is amended by deleting all words after the words "Ministry of Transport Act 1978 is repealed".

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The Act is administered in the Ministry of Transport