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Motor Vehicle Act (amended)

BILL NO. 170

(as passed)

2nd Session, 60th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
57 Elizabeth II, 2008



Private Member's Bill



Motor Vehicle Act
(amended)

CHAPTER 23 OF THE ACTS OF 2008



Wayne J. Gaudet
Clare



First Reading: May 13, 2008 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)

Second Reading: May 26, 2008

Third Reading: May 27, 2008

Royal Assent: May 27, 2008

An Act to Amend Chapter 293
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Motor Vehicle Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Chapter 293 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, is amended by adding immediately after Section 111 the following Section:

111A (1) Where two lanes of a street or highway merge into one lane, the driver of a vehicle in the left lane shall yield the right of way to a vehicle in the right lane unless the driver of the vehicle in the right lane is directed by a sign to yield to the vehicle in the left lane.

(2) For greater certainty, nothing in subsection (1) applies to vehicles in merging from an entrance ramp.

 


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