UNDER WHICH ACT?
A SPEEDING CHARGE
MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
ROTORUA, October 22.
"The new Act is now in force and the law was passed in the interests of public safety. It is not in the power c-f any person, whether he be a Minister of the Crtfwn or anyone else, to waive any provision made by the law,';' said Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court today, when counsel in a case of alleged speeding drew attention to the action of the Rotorua Borough Council traffic inspector, acting on instructions contained in a circular issued by the Minister of Transport (the Hon. R. Semple) ia laying a charge against a defendant under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act, ■1924, instead of under the recentlypassed Motor Vehicles Amendment Act.
Counsel contended that the offence -was made much more serious by the laying of the charge under the main Act instead of under the Amendment Act.
In agreeing to amend the charge to bring the information under tlie Amendment Act,, the Magistrate. said that the public interest should be dominant, but from his observations the new Act was honoured more in the breach than in the observance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 4
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