1998
   The Parliament of the
   Commonwealth of Australia
   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
   Presented and read a first time
   Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Bill 1998
   No. , 1998
   (Transport and Regional Services)
   A Bill for an Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

   ISBN: 0642 387028

   Contents

   A Bill for an Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

   The Parliament of Australia enacts:

      1 Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act
   1998.

      2 Commencement

   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

      3 Schedule(s)

   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
   repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned,
   and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
   its terms.

        Schedule 1--Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

   1 Subsection 5(1)

   Insert:

   Associate Administrator means an Associate Administrator of Vehicle
   Standards referred to in section 22.

   2 Subsection 5(1) (at the end of the definition of vehicle standard)

   Add:

   ; or (d) promote the saving of energy.

   3 Paragraph 11(1)(a)

   Omit "arrangements referred to in section 10", substitute "this Act".

   4 Subparagraph 11(1)(b)(i)

   Omit "those arrangements", substitute "arrangements of the kind
   referred to in section 10".

   5 At the end of subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv)

   Add "or".

   6 After subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv)

   Insert:

   (v) that the person has failed to comply with a condition to which his
   or her authority is subject under subsection 10A(4);

   7 Paragraph 12(d)

   Omit "given; or", substitute "given.".

   8 Paragraph 12(e)

   Repeal the paragraph.

   9 Subsection 17A(1)

   Omit "section 39 of".

   10 Subsection 22(1)

   Repeal the subsection, substitute:

   (1) There are to be an Administrator of Vehicle Standards and such
   Associate Administrators of Vehicle Standards as are required.

   11 At the end of section 22

   Add:

   (3) An Associate Administrator:

   (a) is to be appointed by the Secretary to the Department; and

   (b) is to be a person holding an office in the Department.

   12 Section 23

   Omit "another person who holds or performs the duties of a Senior
   Executive Service office within the Department", substitute "an
   Associate Administrator".

   13 Paragraph 23(e)

   Omit "section 10; and", substitute "section 10.".

   14 Paragraph 23(f)

   Repeal the paragraph.

   15 After paragraph 39(1)(aa)

   Insert:

   (aaa) a decision of the Minister under section 10A; and

   16 Paragraph 39(1)(b)

   Omit "subsection 14(2)", substitute "section 14A".