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GOVERNMENT PROPERTY TRAFFIC ACT
An Act for the control of traffic on
Government property
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Government Property
Traffic Act.
Regulations
2.(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for
the control of traffic on any lands belonging to or occupied by Her Majesty in right of
Canada and, in particular, but without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may
make regulations
(a) regulating the speed and parking of vehicles and prescribing routes
of travel;
(b) respecting one-way traffic, obstruction of traffic and pedestrian
traffic;
(c) for directing traffic and erecting signs;
(d) prohibiting traffic by such vehicles, at such times, in such places
and in such circumstances, as may be prescribed in the regulations;
(e) prohibiting unnecessary noise in the vicinity of buildings;
(f) authorizing officers to enforce the regulations;
(g) prescribing a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or a term of
imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, to be imposed on summary conviction as
punishment for the contravention of any regulation; and
(h) providing for the voluntary payment of fines and for prohibiting
persons who have contravened any regulation from driving a vehicle on the lands for any
period not exceeding one year.
Classification of vehicles
(2) The Governor in Council may classify vehicles according to
dimensions, design, use, weight, kind or otherwise and may make regulations under
subsection (1) with respect to any or all such class or classes.
Liability of owner
3.(1) Where a vehicle is operated or parked in
contravention of any regulation, the owner of the vehicle is liable to the punishment
prescribed by the regulations for the contravention unless, at the time of the
contravention, the vehicle was not operated or parked, as the case may be, by the owner or
by any other person with the owner's consent, express or implied.
No relief from liability operating or parking
(2) Nothing in this section relieves a person who operates or parks a
vehicle in contravention of a regulation from the punishment prescribed for the
contravention.
Evidence
4. In any prosecution for a contravention of a
regulation, a certificate stating that Her Majesty in right of Canada is the owner or
occupant of the lands described therein and purporting to be signed by
(a) the Minister of Public Works and Government Services or the Deputy,
Assistant Deputy or Acting Deputy of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services,
(b) the minister having the administration of the lands or the deputy,
assistant deputy or acting deputy of that minister, or
(c) the officer or person having custody of the documents of title or
other appropriate records,
is evidence that the lands belong to or are occupied by Her Majesty in
right of Canada, as the case may be, without proof of the signature or official character
of the person appearing to have signed the certificate and without further proof.
Established by the Revised
Statutes of Canada, 1985.
CHAPTER G-6.
List of amendments
Section |
Revised Statutes of Canada |
In force
yyyy/mm/dd |
2(1)(g) |
S.C. 1992, c. 7 |
1996/07/31 |
4(a) |
S.C. 1999, c. 31, s. 126 |
1999/06/17 |
4(b) |
S.C. 1992, c. 50, s. 29 |
1992/09/15 |
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