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ROAD TRANSPORT (VEHICLE REGISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 16

Regulations may apply certain documents etc

    (1)     A regulation may apply a publication of the National Transport Commission approved, or of matters approved, by the Australian Transport Council or any other instrument as in force from time to time.

Note 1     The text of an applied, adopted or incorporated law or instrument, whether applied as in force from time to time or as at a particular time, is taken to be a notifiable instrument if the operation of the Legislation Act, s 47 (5) or (6) is not disapplied (see s 47 (7)).

Note 2     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act.

    (2)     For a regulation, a regulation may define a term defined by this Act (or apply the definition of a term in an instrument mentioned in subsection (1))—

        (a)     in the same (or in substantially the same) way as it is defined by this Act; or

        (b)     by reference to a matter included in the term as defined by this Act; or

        (c)     by reference to a combination of matters included in the term as defined by this Act and in any other term defined by this Act; or

        (d)     for applying a publication of the National Transport Commission approved, or of matters approved, by the Australian Transport Council—in the same way as it is defined in the publication despite anything in this Act or other road transport legislation.

    (3)     In this section:

"publication of the National Transport Commission" includes—

        (a)     a document published by or for the National Road Transport Commission under the National Road Transport Commission Act 1991 (Cwlth); and

        (b)     a document published for the National Transport Commission.

Note     The Commonwealth Act mentioned in par (a) has been repealed and replaced by the National Transport Commission Act 2003 (Cwlth).



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