Bill 192 explained in plain English
Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Keep our Roads Safer through the use of Intelligent Drive Technologies), 2016
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 192 of 2016 amends the Highway Traffic Act to enable regulations requiring certain vehicles to be equipped with lifesaving technologies and to set penalties for non-compliance.
This bill amends the Highway Traffic Act to give the Lieutenant Governor in Council the power to make regulations about lifesaving technologies in vehicles. These regulations could require certain types of vehicles registered in Ontario on or after January 1, 2020, to be equipped with specific technologies like collision avoidance systems or post-collision rescue safety technologies. The bill also allows for regulations to set fines for manufacturers or vehicle operators who do not comply with these requirements.
- Allows the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations about lifesaving technologies in vehicles.
- Provides for regulations that could require certain vehicles to be equipped with collision avoidance systems, intelligent drive technologies, or post-collision rescue safety technologies.
- Allows for regulations to set fines for manufacturers and operators of vehicles that do not comply with the new technology requirements.
- Defines 'collision avoidance system/intelligent drive technology' and 'post-collision/accident rescue safety technology'.
- Manufacturers of motor vehicles.
- Operators of motor vehicles registered in Ontario.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council (Ontario).
- First responders (indirectly, through new technologies).
- Manufacturers may be obligated to ensure their vehicles meet new technology requirements.
- Vehicle operators may be obligated to ensure their vehicles are equipped with required technologies.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council has the authority to make regulations.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Regulations made under the Act could apply to vehicles registered on or after January 1, 2020.
- Fines may be imposed on manufacturers or vehicle operators who contravene regulations made under the Act.
- Manufacturers and operators of motor vehicles that do not meet the requirements of regulations made under this Act are guilty of an offence.
- Penalties include fines, the amount of which is to be set out in the regulations.
- The specific types of vehicles that will be subject to these regulations are not detailed in the bill and will be determined by future regulations.
- The exact fines for non-compliance are not specified in the bill and will be set by future regulations.
- The bill does not specify which specific 'lifesaving technologies' will be mandated beyond the examples provided in the definitions.
Adds a new section (81.1) that grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council the authority to create regulations concerning lifesaving technologies in vehicles, including requirements for specific technologies and penalties for non-compliance.
Source: Section 1
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