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MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - As at 7 December 2017 - Act 15 of 1942 - NOTES

MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - As at 7 December 2017 - Act 15 of 1942 - NOTES

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   23 July 1975  

Reprint No 2   24 May 1978  

Reprint No 3   20 May 1980  

Reprint No 4   21 June 1982  

Reprint No 5   8 May 1985  

Reprint No 6   20 May 1991  

Reprint No 7   25 May 1999  

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted
This Act is reprinted with the omission of all amending provisions authorised to be omitted under sec 6 of the Reprints Act 1972.

Table of amending instruments

Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act 1942 No 15. Assented to 29.6.1942. Date of commencement of Part 1, 29.6.1942, sec 2 (1); date of commencement of Parts 2 (including sec 7 (1)), 3 and 4 (excepting sec 44), 1.2.1943, secs 2 (2) (3) and 7 (2) and GG No 172 of 24.12.1942, p 3238; date of commencement of sec 44, 20.11.1942, sec 2 (2) (3) and GG No 152 of 20.11.1942, p 3002. This Act has been amended as follows:

1951 No 59 Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 1951. Assented to 28.12.1951.
1962 No 42 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) and Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act 1962. Assented to 14.12.1962.
1963 No 43 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1963. Assented to 2.12.1963.

Date of commencement, 1.4.1964, sec 1 (5) and GG No 33 of 20.3.1964, p 875.
1964 No 17 Law Reform (Married Persons) Act 1964. Assented to 30.4.1964.
1965 No 32 Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965.

Date of commencement of sec 11, 15.4.1966, sec 2 (2) (3) and GG No 39 of 15.4.1966, p 1573.
No 33 Decimal Currency Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965.

Date of commencement of sec 4, 14.2.1966, secs 1 (3), 2 (1) and the Currency Act 1965 (Commonwealth), sec 2 (2).
1969 No 32 Motor Vehicles and Government Railways (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1969. Assented to 9.4.1969.

Date of commencement, except sec 2 (1) (c), 9.4.1969, sec 1 (9).
1970 No 52 Supreme Court Act 1970. Assented to 14.10.1970.

Date of commencement, Part 9 excepted, 1.7.1972, sec 2 (1) and GG No 59 of 2.6.1972, p 2018. Amended by Supreme Court (Amendment) Act 1972 No 41. Assented to 11.4.1972.
1972 No 15 Ambulance Service Act 1972. Assented to 29.3.1972.

Date of commencement, 13.4.1973, sec 1 (2) and GG No 49 of 13.4.1973, p 1286.
No 35 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1972. Assented to 11.4.1972.

Date of commencement, 30.6.1972, sec 1 (2) and GG No 68 of 30.6.1972, p 2523.
1976 No 72 Ambulance Services Act 1976. Assented to 2.12.1976.

Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.1.1977, sec 2 (2) and GG No 165 of 24.12.1976, p 5717.
1977 No 19 Notice of Action and Other Privileges Abolition Act 1977. Assented to 24.3.1977.

Date of commencement, 19.8.1977, sec 2 and GG No 92 of 19.8.1977, p 3541. Amended by Notice of Action and Other Privileges Abolition (Amendment) Act 1978 No 56. Assented to 3.4.1978. Date of commencement, 19.8.1977, sec 2.
No 113 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1977. Assented to 2.12.1977.
1978 No 123 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1978. Assented to 21.12.1978.

Date of commencement of sec 3, 30.3.1979, sec 2 (2) and GG No 46 of 30.3.1979, p 1384.
1981 No 21 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1981. Assented to 13.5.1981.
No 123 Miscellaneous Acts (Companies) Amendment Act 1981. Assented to 30.12.1981.

Date of commencement of Sch 8 (except as provided by sec 2 (6) (a)-(c)), 1.7.1982, sec 2 (6) and GG No 90 of 30.6.1982, p 2959.
1983 No 138 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) (Recreation Vehicles) Amendment Act 1983. Assented to 21.12.1983.

Date of commencement of sec 3 and Sch 1, 1.10.1985, sec 2 (2) (3) and GG No 134 of 27.9.1985, p 5092.
No 153 Miscellaneous Acts (Public Finance and Audit) Repeal and Amendment Act 1983. Assented to 29.12.1983.

Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.1.1984, sec 2 (2) and GG No 4 of 6.1.1984, p 19.
1984 No 86 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1984. Assented to 28.6.1984.

Date of commencement of Schs 1-5, 1.7.1984, sec 2 (2).
No 153 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1984. Assented to 10.12.1984.
1985 No 96 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1985. Assented to 12.6.1985.

Date of commencement of sec 3, 1.1.1986, sec 2 (2) and GG No 176 of 20.12.1985, p 6575.
No 140 Miscellaneous Acts (Motor Transport Fees and Charges) Amendment Act 1985. Assented to 25.11.1985.

Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.7.1986, sec 2 (2) and GG No 90 of 6.6.1986, p 2556.
No 231 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1985. Assented to 18.12.1985.
1986 No 53 Miscellaneous Acts (Area Health Services) Amendment Act 1986. Assented to 14.5.1986.

Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.7.1986, sec 2 (2) and GG No 99 of 27.6.1986, p 2946.
No 218 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1986. Assented to 23.12.1986.
1987 No 48 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987.

Date of commencement of Sch 32 (except as provided by sec 2 (13)), 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
No 102 Miscellaneous Acts (Transport Accidents Compensation) Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 12.6.1987.

Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.7.1987, sec 2 (2).
No 154 Transport Legislation (Financial Administration) Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 18.11.1987.

Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1988 No 103 Miscellaneous Acts (Motor Accidents) Amendment Act 1988. Assented to 21.12.1988.

Date of commencement of the amendment in Sch 1 relating to the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act 1942, 1.7.1989, sec 2 and GG No 73 of 16.6.1989, p 3500.
1989 No 132 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No 2) Act 1989. Assented to 5.9.1989.

Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 2 relating to the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act 1942, assent, sec 2.
1992 No 112 Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1992. Assented to 8.12.1992.

Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1993 No 16 Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Amendment Act 1993. Assented to 12.5.1993.

Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
No 47 Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1993. Assented to 15.6.1993.

Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1994 No 27 Motor Accidents (Amendment) Act 1994. Assented to 30.5.1994.

Date of commencement, 17.6.1994, sec 2 and GG No 78 of 10.6.1994, p 2757.
1996 No 30 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996. Assented to 21.6.1996.

Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1997 No 115 Traffic Legislation Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 9.12.1997.

Date of commencement, 29.6.1998, sec 2 and GG No 97 of 26.6.1998, p 4431.
No 154 Health Services Act 1997. Assented to 19.12.1997.

Date of commencement, 1.7.1998, sec 2 and GG No 97 of 26.6.1998, p 4423.
1998 No 137 Justices Legislation Amendment (Appeals) Act 1998. Assented to 8.12.1998.

Date of commencement of Sch 2.19, 1.3.1999, sec 2 and GG No 25 of 26.2.1999, p 973.
1999 No 31 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999.

Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
No 85 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999.

Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
2001 No 34 Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001. Assented to 28.6.2001.

Date of commencement of Sch 2.37, 15.7.2001, sec 2 (1) and Commonwealth Gazette No S 285 of 13.7.2001.
No 121 Justices Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001.

Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978.
2006 No 120 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2006. Assented to 4.12.2006.

Date of commencement of Sch 2, assent, sec 2 (2).
2007 No 9 Private Health Facilities Act 2007. Assented to 15.6.2007.

Date of commencement, 1.3.2010, sec 2 and 2010 (53) LW 26.2.2010.
No 94 Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007.

Date of commencement of Schs 1.73 and 2, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
2010 No 97 Health Services Amendment (Local Health Networks) Act 2010. Assented to 16.11.2010.

Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.1.2011, sec 2 (1) and 2010 (716) LW 17.12.2010.
2011 No 4 Health Services Amendment (Local Health Districts and Boards) Act 2011. Assented to 16.5.2011.

Date of commencement, 1.7.2011, sec 2 and 2011 (313) LW 1.7.2011.
No 62 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2011. Assented to 16.11.2011.

Date of commencement of Sch 5, 6.1.2012, sec 2 (1).
2017 No 63 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2017. Assented to 23.11.2017.

Date of commencement of Sch 5, 14 days after assent, sec 2 (1).
This Act has also been amended:
(a) by regulations under sec 33E (1),
(b) pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Assented to 9.10.1972. Order dated 14.7.1975, and published in Gazette No 97 of 18.7.1975, p 2843, declaring that the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act 1942 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Decimal Currency Act 1965, the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996.

Sec 3 Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (1). Ins 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Sec 4 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (1), 3 (1), Rep 1984 No 153, Sch 16.
Sec 5 Am 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (1); 1981 No 21, sec 2; 1983 No 138, sec 3, Sch 1 (1); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (2), 5 (2); 1985 No 96, sec 3; 1985 No 140, Sch 1; 1986 No 218, Sch 27 (1); 1987 No 102, Sch 1; 1988 No 103, Sch 1; 1989 No 132, Sch 2; 1997 No 115, Sch 4.13.
Sec 6 Am 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (2); 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (3); 1987 No 154, Sch 1.
Sec 6A Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (3).
Sec 7 Am 1978 No 123, sec 3; 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (4); 1992 No 112, Sch 1.
Sec 8 Am 1963 No 43, sec 2 (a); 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (4).
Sec 9 Am 1963 No 43, sec 2 (b); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (5), 5 (5).
Sec 10 Am 1962 No 42, sec 2 (a); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (6), 5 (6); 1986 No 218, Sch 27 (2).
Sec 11 Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (7).
Sec 12 Am 1983 No 138, Sch 1 (2); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (6) (a)-(c) (8), 5 (7); 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 13 Am 1970 No 52, Second Sch (am 1972 No 41, Second Sch); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (6) (a), 5 (8); 1998 No 137, Sch 2.19; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.63 [1]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.153; 2007 No 94, Schs 1.73 [1] [2], 2.
Sec 14 Am 1970 No 52, Second Sch (am 1972 No 41, Second Sch). Subst 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (9). Am 1993 No 16, Sch 1 (1).
Sec 14A Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (9).
Sec 14B Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (9). Am 1986 No 218, Sch 27 (3).
Sec 14C Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (9).
Sec 14D Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (9). Am 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Sec 14E Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (9).
Sec 15 Am 1951 No 59, sec 5 (a); 1962 No 42, sec 2 (b); 1969 No 32, sec 5 (a); 1970 No 52, Second Sch (am 1972 No 41, Second Sch); 1977 No 19, Sch (am 1978 No 56, sec 3 (b) (i)). Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (10).
Sec 16 Am 1962 No 42, sec 2 (c). Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (10).
Sec 17 Am 1951 No 59, sec 5 (b); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (6) (b), 5 (9).
Sec 18 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (6) (b) (c) (11), 5 (10).
Sec 19 Am 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (11).
Sec 20 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (6) (b) (12), 5 (12).
Sec 21 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (13), 5 (13) (am 1984 No 153, Sch 16).
Sec 22 Am 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (13).
Sec 23 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (14), 5 (14); 1992 No 112, Sch 1.
Sec 24 Am 1972 No 15, Sch; 1972 No 35, sec 2 (1) (a); 1976 No 72, Sch 2; 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (3); 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (15); 1986 No 53, Sch 1; 1997 No 154, Sch 6.27; 2007 No 9, Sch 5.24; 2010 No 97, Sch 2.21; 2011 No 4, Sch 2.23.
Sec 25 Am 1972 No 35, sec 2 (1) (b); 1977 No 19, Sch 1 (am 1978 No 56, sec 3 (b) (i)); 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (4); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (15), 5 (16); 1984 No 153, Sch 16.
Sec 26 Am 1972 No 35, sec 2 (1) (c); 1977 No 19, Sch 1 (am 1978 No 56, sec 3 (b) (i)); 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (5); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (12) (c) (15) (b) (16), 5 (17).
Sec 27 Am 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (15) (b).
Sec 28 Am 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (18). Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4.
Part 2, Div 4, heading Am 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (17).
Sec 29 Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (18).
Sec 30 Am 1951 No 59, sec 5 (c); 1964 No 17, sec 3; 1969 No 32, sec 5 (b); 1977 No 19, Sch 1 (am 1978 No 56, sec 3 (b) (i)). Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (18).
Sec 31 Am 1970 No 52, Second Sch (am 1972 No 41, Second Sch). Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (18).
Sec 31A Ins 1969 No 32, sec 5 (c). Subst 1983 No 153, Sch 2. Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (18).
Sec 32 Am 1951 No 59, sec 5 (d); 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (19), 5 (19).
Sec 33 Subst 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (6); 1984 No 86, Sch 2 (1). Rep 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Sec 33A Ins 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (6). Subst 1984 No 86, Sch 2 (1). Am 1987 No 48, Sch 17. Rep 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Sec 33B Ins 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (6). Subst 1984 No 86, Sch 2 (1). Rep 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Secs 33C-33D Ins 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (6). Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 2 (1).
Sec 33E Ins 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (6). Am 1984 No 86, Sch 2 (2). Rep 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Sec 34 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (20), 5 (20); 1992 No 112, Sch 1.
Sec 35 Rep 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (21).
Part 3A Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 3 (2).
Sec 35A Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 3 (2). Am 1987 No 102, Sch 1; 1993 No 16, Sch 1 (2).
Secs 35B, 35C Ins 1984 No 86, Sch 3 (2).
Sec 35D Am 1994 No 27, Sch 1.
Sec 36 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (21), 5 (22).
Sec 37 Am 1970 No 52, Second Sch (am 1972 No 41, Second Sch); 1981 No 123, Sch 8; 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (22), 5 (23); 2001 No 34, Sch 2.37.
Sec 38 Am 1984 No 86, Sch 1 (23).
Sec 38A Ins 1951 No 59, sec 5 (e). Rep 1965 No 32, sec 11.
Sec 41 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 4, 5 (24); 1992 No 112, Sch 1; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.63 [2]; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.
Sec 43 Rep 2006 No 120, Sch 2.60.
Sec 44 Rep 2011 No 62, Sch 5.
Sec 45 Am 1984 No 86, Schs 1 (24), 4; 1985 No 140, Sch 1; 1989 No 132, Sch 2; 1993 No 47, Sch 1.
Sec 46 Subst 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (25). Rep 1987 No 48, Sch 32. Ins 2017 No 63, Sch 5.
Sch 1 Ins 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (7). Am GG No 196 of 24.12.1981, p 6727 (1); GG No 163 of 26.11.1982, p 5388 (2); GG No 170 of 9.12.1983, p 5553 (3); GG No 39 of 9.3.1984, p 1460 (4); 1984 No 86, Schs 2 (3), 5 (26); GG No 31 of 1.2.1985, p 499 (5); GG No 98 of 28.6.1985, p 3115 (6); GG No 125 of 6.9.1985, p 4716; GG No 134 of 27.9.1985, p 5099 (7); GG No 29 of 14.2.1986, p 671 (8). Rep 1987 No 102, Sch 1.
Editorial note : (1) On and from 1.1.1982.

(2) On and from 1.1.1983.

(3) On and from 1.1.1984.

(4) On and from 1.4.1984.

(5) On and from 1.3.1985.

(6) On and from 1.7.1985.

(7) On and from 1.10.1985.

(8) On and from 15.2.1986.