Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Associate Administrator" means an Associate Administrator of Vehicle Standards referred to in section 22.
"Administrator" means the Administrator of Vehicle Standards referred to in section 22.
(a) the Territory of Christmas Island; or
(b) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
"component" includes an assembly.
(a) a foreign corporation within the meaning of paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution; or
(b) a trading or financial corporation formed within the limits of the Commonwealth, within the meaning of that paragraph; or
(c) a corporation that is controlled by a corporation referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);
and includes a partnership at least one of the partners in which is a corporation.
(a) do an act; or
(b) omit to perform an act.
"export vehicle" means a locally made vehicle that is to be exported from Australia without having been used in transport in Australia.
"identification plate" means a plate declaring the status of a road vehicle in relation to the national standards and approved to be placed on vehicles of that type or description under procedures and arrangements provided for in subsection 10(1).
"import" , in relation to a road vehicle or vehicle component, means do an act which constitutes importation of the vehicle or component for the purposes of the Customs Act 1901 .
"imported vehicle" means a road vehicle imported on or after 1 July 1989.
"locally made vehicle" means a road vehicle in whose manufacture at least the last step was carried out in Australia, but does not include a road vehicle (if any) in whose manufacture none of the steps was carried out in Australia by a corporation.
"manufacture" , in relation to a road vehicle, includes modify the vehicle and assemble the vehicle.
"motor vehicle" means a vehicle that uses, or is designed to use, volatile spirit, gas, oil, electricity or any other power (not being human or animal power) as the principal means of propulsion, but does not include a vehicle used on a railway or tramway.
"national standard" means a vehicle standard determined under section 7.
"new imported vehicle" means an imported vehicle that has not been used in transport outside Australia.
"new vehicle" means a locally made vehicle, or a new imported vehicle, that has been neither:
(a) supplied to the market; nor
(b) used in transport in Australia by its manufacturer or importer;
and includes a locally made vehicle, or a new imported vehicle, that has been supplied to the market but not yet used in transport in Australia.
"nonstandard" , in relation to a road vehicle or a vehicle component, means not complying with the national standards and not taken to comply with the national standards by virtue of an approval given under subsection 10A(2).
"placement" , in relation to an identification plate, includes the engraving, or other like process, of information that would otherwise be contained on the plate.
(a) a structure, building, aircraft, vehicle or vessel; and
(b) land or a place (whether enclosed or built upon or not); and
(c) a part of premises (including premises of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)).
"registered automotive workshop" means a corporation in respect of which an approval is in force under section 21B.
(a) a motor vehicle designed solely or principally for the transport on public roads of people, animals or goods; or
(b) a motor vehicle that is permitted to be used on public roads.
(a) a vehicle without motive power designed for attachment to a road motor vehicle; or
(b) a piece of machinery or equipment that is equipped with wheels and designed to be towed behind a road motor vehicle.
(a) a road motor vehicle; or
(b) a road trailer; or
(c) a partly completed road motor vehicle;
but does not include vehicles which the Minister has determined, under section 5B, are not road vehicles.
"standard vehicle" means a new vehicle that complies with the national standards, or which is taken to comply with the national standards by virtue of an approval given under subsection 10A(2), but does not include an export vehicle.
"supply to the market" , in relation to a road vehicle, means deliver the vehicle to a person for use in transport in Australia.
"use" means:
(a) in relation to a road motor vehicle--drive; or
(b) in relation to a road trailer--have attached to, or towed by, a road motor vehicle that is being driven.
"used import plate" , in relation to a used imported vehicle, means a plate approved to be placed on the vehicle by an approval in force under section 13D.
"used imported vehicle" means an imported vehicle that has been used in transport outside Australia.
"use in transport" , in relation to a road vehicle, means use the vehicle on a public road otherwise than:
(a) to move it in order to:
(i) have work done on it; or
(ii) have it registered under a law; or
(iii) protect it; or
(b) for a prescribed purpose.
"vehicle component" means a component to be used in the manufacture of a road vehicle, and includes a component of such a component.
"vehicle standard" means a standard for road vehicles or vehicle components that is designed to:
(a) make road vehicles safe to use; or
(b) control the emission of gas, particles or noise from road vehicles; or
(c) secure road vehicles against theft; or
(d) promote the saving of energy.
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