New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (VEHICLE REGISTRATION) ACT 1997 - SECT 3

3 Objects of Act

(cf Cth Act s 3)
The objects of this Act are:

(a) to make provision for the registration of registrable vehicles in accordance with the agreements scheduled to the National Road Transport Commission Act 1991 of the Commonwealth as part of the uniform national road transport legislation envisaged by that Act, and

Note: The Agreements concerned were the Heavy Vehicle Agreement and the Light Vehicle Agreement . The Commonwealth Act referred to has been repealed and replaced by the National Transport Commission Act 2003 of the Commonwealth. That Act does not have any Agreements scheduled to it but does make provision for an Agreement “entered into in relation to [that] Act”. That Agreement is the Inter-Governmental Agreement for Regulatory and Operational Reform in Road, Rail and Intermodal Transport .

(b) to improve road safety and transport efficiency and reduce the costs of administering road transport.