LEGAL SUPPLEMENT 83
to the Government Gazette of Mauritius No. 71 of 18 May 2022
THE ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019
(AMENDMENT) ACT 2022
Act No. 6 of 2022
I assent
PRITHVIRAJSING ROOPUN, G.C.S.K.
18 May 2022
th
President of the Republic of Mauritius
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Section 3 of principal Act amended
4. Section 5 of principal Act amended
5. Section 6 of principal Act amended
6. Section 8 of principal Act amended
7. Section 14 of principal Act amended
8. Section 20 of principal Act repealed and replaced
9. Schedule to principal Act amended
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An Act
To amend the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2019
ENACTED by the Parliament of Mauritius, as follows –
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2019
(Amendment) Act 2022.
2. Interpretation
In this Act –
“principal Act” means the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2019.
3. Section 3 of principal Act amended
Section 3 of the principal Act is amended –
(a) in paragraph (b), in the proposed definition of “drug”, by
deleting the words “Twelfth Schedule” and replacing them by
the words “Thirteenth Schedule”;
(b) in paragraph (d), in the proposed new definition of
“intoxicating substance”, by deleting the words “Twelfth
Schedule” wherever they appear and replacing them by the
words “Thirteenth Schedule”.
4. Section 5 of principal Act amended
Section 5 of the principal Act is amended, in paragraph (b),
in the proposed subsection (1), by deleting the words “Twelfth Schedule”
wherever they appear and replacing them by the words “Thirteenth
Schedule”.
5. Section 6 of principal Act amended
Section 6 of the principal Act is amended, in the proposed
section 123E, in subsection (1), by deleting the words “Twelfth Schedule”
wherever they appear and replacing them by the words “Thirteenth
Schedule”.
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6. Section 8 of principal Act amended
Section 8 of the principal Act is amended, in the proposed
section 123G, in subsection (1)(b), by deleting the words
“Thirteenth Schedule” and replacing them by the words “Fourteenth
Schedule”.
7. Section 14 of principal Act amended
Section 14 of the principal Act is amended, in paragraph (c)(ii),
in the proposed new paragraphs (aa) and (ab), by deleting the
words “Twelfth Schedule” and replacing them by the words
“Thirteenth Schedule”.
8. Section 20 of principal Act repealed and replaced
Section 20 of the principal Act is repealed and replaced by the
following section –
20. Thirteenth Schedule and Fourteenth Schedule added in
principal Act
The principal Act is amended by adding the Thirteenth
Schedule and Fourteenth Schedule set out in the Schedule to
this Act.
9. Schedule to principal Act amended
The Schedule to the principal Act is amended –
(a) in the proposed Twelfth Schedule, by deleting the following
words –
TWELFTH SCHEDULE
[Section 2]
and replacing them by the following words –
THIRTEENTH SCHEDULE
[Section 2]
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(b) in the proposed Thirteenth Schedule, by deleting the following
words –
THIRTEENTH SCHEDULE
[Section 123G]
and replacing them by the following words –
FOURTEENTH SCHEDULE
[Section 123G]
Passed by the National Assembly on the seventeenth day of May
two thousand and twenty two.
Bibi Safeena Lotun (Mrs)
Clerk of the National Assembly
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