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Traffic Act 1987
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53A Demerit points
(1) The Administrator may also make regulations:
(a) specifying offences under this Act or another Act regulating
road use or use of road-related areas as offences that attract
demerit points; and
(b) specifying the number of demerit points to be allocated in
respect of the offences.
(2) The Minister may, by Gazette notice and published in a newspaper
circulating throughout the Territory, declare that during a period
specified in the notice additional demerit points will apply to demerit
points offences.
(3) The additional points declared by the Minister must not result in the
total number of demerit points applying in relation to an offence
exceeding double the points specified by the Administrator under
subsection (1)(b).
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