BILL NO. 22

(as introduced)

1st Session, 60th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
55 Elizabeth II, 2006

Government Bill

Motor Vehicle Act
(amended)

The Honourable Angus MacIsaac
Minister of Transportation and Public Works

First Reading: June 30, 2006

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading: November 2, 2006

Third Reading: November 23, 2006 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

Clause 1 amends the definition of "farm tractor" and adds definitions of "farm wagon" and "implement of husbandry" in the Motor Vehicle Act.

Clause 2 provides that no person shall drive upon a highway at a speed greater than forty kilometres per hour a vehicle displaying a slow-moving sign.

Clause 3 provides that towed implements of husbandry are not required to have brakes, provided a slow-moving sign is displayed and the implement of husbandry can be stopped within ten metres when travelling at a speed of twenty kilometres per hour.

Clause 4 provides that this Act comes into force on proclamation.

(a) striking out clause (p) and substituting the following clauses:

(p) "farm tractor" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of a vehicle and load drawn by it, and includes such a motor vehicle equipped front or rear with attachments designed and used for agricultural purposes, loaded or without a load;

(pa) "farm wagon" means a trailer equipped with two axle groups of which the front axle group is steerable and designed and used to carry farm products or farm supplies;

and

(b) adding immediately after clause (u) the following clause:

(ua) "implement of husbandry" means a vehicle, with or without motive power, that is designed and used for agricultural purposes, and includes
(i) farm machinery,

(ii) a farm wagon,

(iii) a trailer when towed by a farm tractor or when towed unloaded by any other motor vehicle to or from a farm equipment dealer or repair facility or to or from a field or farm, and

(iv) a farm tractor;

(5) No person shall drive upon a highway at a rate of speed in excess of forty kilometres per hour a farm tractor or other motor vehicle exhibiting at the rear of the farm tractor or motor vehicle or of a vehicle drawn by the farm tractor or motor vehicle a sign, emblem or device prescribed by the Minister warning motorists of the slow movement of a vehicle.

3 Section 181 of Chapter 293 is amended by adding immediately after subsection (5) the following subsections:

(5A) Subsection (5) does not apply to an implement of husbandry without motive power if the implement of husbandry exhibits a slow moving sign as required by Section 117 or the regulations.

(5B) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section, no person shall, upon a highway, propel or move at a speed greater than twenty kilometres per hour an implement of husbandry, unless the implement of husbandry can be stopped within ten metres when travelling at a speed of twenty kilometres per hour.