MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - SECT 5
Interpretation
MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - SECT 5
Interpretation
5 Interpretation
(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise
indicates or requires:
"Bodily injury" includes, in relation to a person, damage to the person's
crutches, artificial members, eyes or teeth, other artificial aids or
spectacle glasses.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner for Motor Transport.
"Driver" includes the rider of a motor cycle and any person for the time being
in charge of any motor vehicle, and
"driving" has a corresponding meaning.
"Government Insurance Office" means the Government Insurance Office of New
South Wales established under the Government Insurance Act 1927 .
"Insured motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle in relation to which there is in
force at all material times a third-party policy.
"Motor vehicle" means any motor car, motor carriage, motor cycle or other
vehicle propelled wholly or partly by any volatile spirit, steam, gas, oil or
electricity, or by any means other than human or animal power, and includes a
trailer, but does not include any vehicle used on a railway or tramway or any
vehicle which is owned by the Commonwealth or by any person or body of persons
representing the Commonwealth.
"Owner" when used with reference to a motor vehicle means:
(a) in a case where
a trader's plate is affixed to the motor vehicle--the trader to whom such
trader's plate is in issue,
(a) any street, road, lane, thoroughfare, footpath, or
place open to or used by the public, and includes any place at the time open
to or used by the public on the payment of money or otherwise, or
"Transport Accidents Compensation Fund" means the Fund established under
section 15 of the Transport Accidents Compensation Act 1987 and continued in
accordance with Part 10 of the Motor Accidents Act 1988 .
"Third-party policy" means a policy of insurance which complies with the
requirements of this Act.
"Trader's plate" means a special number plate issued to a manufacturer or
repairer of or dealer in motor vehicles in accordance with the regulations
under the Motor Traffic Act 1909 .
(2) In the application of any provision of this Act
to and in respect of a motor vehicle to which a trader's plate is affixed, a
reference in such provision to the owner shall be construed as a reference to
the trader, and a reference to the third-party policy in relation to that
motor vehicle shall be construed as a reference to the third-party policy in
relation to motor vehicles to which the trader's plate is affixed.
(3) Where
in any provision of this Act reference is made to the issue of a
third-party policy such reference shall extend to and include the issue of a
renewal of the third-party policy.