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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1989

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FIXED PENALTIES FOR MOVING TRAFFIC OFFENCES INCREASED

MOVING MOST

TRAFFIC OFFENCES WERE $280, UNDER A MOTION

FIXED PENALTY LEVELS FOR INCREASED FROM $140 TO $200, AND FROM $200 TO APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE NEW FINES WILL TAKE EFFECT FROM JULY 1.

FAILURE

THE MOTION ALSO EXTENDED FIXED PENALTY FINES TO COVER

WEAR SEAT BELTS IN TAXIS, OF DRIVERS AND FRONT SEAT PASSENGERS TO LIGHT BUSES AND GOODS VEHICLES,

THE MOTION,

SECRETARY

FOR

TRANSPORT,

THE HON HAD REMAINED

MOVING THE MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID THE EXISTING FINES OF $140 AND $200 UNCHANGED SINCE 1984 AND 1980 RESPECTIVELY.

THE

INCREASING

RECENT

YEARS BY

NUMBER OF TICKETS ISSUED IN INDICATED THAT THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF THESE FINES HAD BEEN ERODED INFLATION.

FOR DRIVING IN EXCESS OF THE THE NUMBER OF TICKETS ISSUED

HOUR OR LESS HAD INCREASED FROM SPEED LIMIT BY 15 KILOMETRES PER ABOUT 30,000 IN 1985 TO 64,000 IN 1988, AN INCREASE OF 110 PER CENT.

IN

VIEW OF

THE INCREASING

NUMBER

OF LICENSED VEHICLES, PENALTY TICKETS MR LEUNG SAID THE UPWARD TREND IN THE ISSUE OF FIXED WAS LIKELY TO CONTINUE.

LEUNG SAID

MR

SIX NEW FIXED INTRODUCED, RELATING TO THE WEARING OF BUSES AND GOODS VEHICLES.

OFFENCES PENALTY SEAT BELTS IN TAXIS, LIGHT

WOULD BE

THE NEW FIXED PENALTY OFFENCES WERE:

TAXIS,

LIGHT

BUSES,

GOODS VEHICLES DRIVING FASTENING A SEAT BELT. THE FIXED PENALTY FOR THESE WOULD BE $200.

WITHOUT OFFENCES

DRIVING TAXIS, LIGHT BUSES,

VEHICLES GOODS

A WHEN

FRONT FASTENED A SEAT

SEAT PASSENGER UNDER 15 YEARS OLD HAD NOT BELT. THE FIXED PENALTY FOR THESE OFFENCES WOULD BE $140.

THE THAT

LIABILITY

VICARIOUS

OF THESE EXPLAINED MR LEUNG

IT WAS ACCEPTED, DRIVERS WAS LIMITED TO PASSENGERS UNDER 15 BECAUSE

HAVE AFTER EXTENSIVE CONSULTATION WITH THE TRADE, THAT DRIVERS MIGHT

ΤΟ WEAR THE SEAT DIFFICULTY IN REQUIRING PASSENGERS ABOVE THIS AGE BELT.

OF THE SEAT BELT LEGISLATION, AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE PRIVATE CARS, THE TOTAL OF FATAL WHILE THE NUMBER

ON REASONS FOR THE EXTENSION MR LEUNG SAID THAT IN THE 12 MONTHS COMPULSORY WEARING OF FRONT SEAT BELTS IN FRONT SEAT CASUALTIES FELL BY 28 PER CENT, AND SERIOUS CASUALTIES FELL BY 51 PER CENT,

/MR LEUNG