New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (HEAVY VEHICLES REGISTRATION CHARGES) ACT 1995 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"administration fee" means a fee payable under section 7 (4).
"authorised officer" means any person authorised by the Authority for the purposes of this Act either generally or in any particular case.
"Authority" means the Roads and Traffic Authority constituted under the Transport Administration Act 1988 .
"charges" means registration charges under this Act.
"civil defence work" means the work of dealing with an emergency as defined in section 4 of the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 .
"configuration" of a vehicle means a description of a vehicle in Schedule 1 for which separate provision is made in that Schedule for the amount of the registration charge.
"eligible pensioner" means a person:

(a) who is the holder of a Pensioner Concession Card which is in force issued by the Commonwealth Department of Social Security or the Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs, or

(b) who is in receipt of a pension or other amount paid by the Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs in respect of a war-caused disability seriously affecting the person’s powers of movement, being a pension or other amount (or a pension or other amount below a rate) approved by the Authority for the purposes of this paragraph, or

(c) who is an armed services widow within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth and:

(i) who is in receipt of a pension under Part II or IV of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth at the maximum rate applicable under section 1064 (5) of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth, and

(ii) who is under the pension age for the person set out in section 5QA of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth,

and

(d) who is the holder of a current licence to drive a vehicle, being a licence for which no fee was payable by virtue of the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 or the regulations made under that Act, or

(e) who is not the holder of any such licence but:

(i) who has satisfied the Authority, by the production of a certificate from a medical practitioner, that the person is not medically fit to drive a vehicle, or

(ii) who has otherwise satisfied the Authority that the person should be treated as an eligible pensioner for the purposes of this Act.

"government-owned vehicle" means a vehicle owned by the Crown or by a statutory body representing the Crown.
"loaded mass" of a vehicle means the sum of the mass of the vehicle and the mass of the load on the vehicle that is imposed on the surface on which the vehicle is standing or running.
"owner" of a vehicle includes:

(a) every person who is the owner, joint owner or part owner of the vehicle, and

(b) any person who has the use of the vehicle under a hire-purchase or a hiring agreement,

but does not include the lessor of a vehicle under a hire-purchase agreement.
"registered", in relation to a vehicle, means registered under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 .
"registration charge" means a charge imposed under this Act for the registration or renewal of registration of a vehicle.
"road" means an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or has as one of its main uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles.
"road related area" means:

(a) an area that divides a road, or

(b) a footpath or nature strip adjacent to a road, or

(c) an area that is open to the public and is designated for use by cyclists or animals, or

(d) an area that is not a road and that is open to or used by the public for driving, riding or parking vehicles, or

(e) a shoulder of a road, or

(f) any other area that is open to or used by the public and that has been declared under section 15 of the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 to be an area to which specified provisions of this Act or the regulations apply.

"road transport legislation" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 .
"vehicle" means a motor vehicle or trailer within the meaning of the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 .

(2) Notes included in this Act are explanatory notes and do not form part of this Act.