Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
- Act 70 of 1999
- Royal Assent 24 November 1999
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 - Preliminary
1. 1. Short title
2. 2. Commencement
3. 3. Interpretation
3A. 3A. Repairable and statutory write-offs
4. 4. Binding the Crown
PART 2 - Administration Division 1 - Registrar of Motor Vehicles
5. 5. Appointment of Registrar
6. 6. Responsibilities of Registrar
7. 7. Delegation
Division 2 - Commission to administer vehicle operations
7A. 7A. Commission to administer vehicle operations
PART 3 - Motor Vehicle Drivers Division 1 - Licensing of drivers
8. 8. Requirement to hold driver licence
9. 9. Driving while subject to licence suspension
10. 10. Eligibility to hold licence
11. 11. Issue of licence
12. 12. Compliance with conditions
13. 13. Driving while disqualified
Division 1A - Regression and recommencement of novice drivers and
novice riders
13A. 13A. Regression of novice drivers and novice riders
13B. 13B. Recommencement or extension of provisional period on
conviction for prescribed offence
Division 2 - Ancillary certificates
14. 14. Driving instructors
15. 15. Public passenger vehicles
16. 16. Compliance with conditions
Division 3 - Powers of court with regard to driving
17. 17. Power of court to order disqualification
18. 18. Restricted driver licences
19. 19. Effect of disqualification
Division 3A - Excessive speeding offences
19A. 19A. Automatic disqualification for excessive speeding
19B. 19B. Court-imposed penalties for excessive speeding
Division 3B - Excessive drink-driving offences
19C. 19C. Automatic suspension of licence for excessive drink-driving
Division 3C - Prescribed offences by learner drivers
19D. 19D. Conviction under Monetary Penalties Enforcement Act 2005 for
unaccompanied driver offence
19E. 19E. Court-imposed penalties for unaccompanied driver offence
Division 4 - Demerit points scheme
20. 20. Offences attracting demerit points
21. 21. Award of demerit points on conviction
22. 22. Award of demerit points on traffic infringement notice
23. 23. Recording of demerit points
24. 24. Licence to be suspended when demerit points reach prescribed
limit
25. 25. Period of ineligibility for unlicensed drivers
26. 26. Interrelationship with penalties imposed by court
PART 4 - Registration of Motor Vehicles and Trailers
27. 27. Requirement for registration
28. 28. Vehicles registered under corresponding law
29. 29. Vehicles registered in a foreign country
30. 30. Compliance with conditions of registration etc
31. 31. Use of vehicle while its registration is under suspension
32. 32. Use of vehicle contrary to prohibition
32A. 32A. Use of statutory write-offs prohibited
33. 33. Hire and drive vehicles
PART 5 - Motor Tax
34. 34. Imposition of motor tax for light vehicles
34A. 34A. Imposition of motor tax for heavy vehicles
35. 35. Liability for motor tax
36. 36. Changes to registered vehicle, &c., affecting motor tax
37. 37. Recovery of motor tax
PART 6 - Regulations
38. 38. Driver licensing scheme
39. 39. Vehicle registration scheme
40. 40. Motor tax
40AA. 40AA. Road safety levy
40A. 40A. Vehicle standards
40B. 40B. Vehicle operations
40C. 40C. Written-off vehicles
41. 41. Registers
42. 42. Review
42A. 42A. Offence detection devices
43. 43. Inclusion or exclusion of areas
44. 44. Fees generally
45. 45. Regulations generally
PART 7 - Compliance and Enforcement
46. 46. Power to stop vehicle
46A. 46A. Carriage and production of driver licence, &c.
47. 47. Production of documents by drivers and persons in charge of
vehicles
48. 48. Miscellaneous document production requirements
49. 49. Inspection of vehicles
49A. 49A. Power to unload
50. 50. Production of vehicles for inspection
50A. 50A. Power to retain vehicles
51. 51. Power of seizure
52. 52. Powers of entry
53. 53. Hindering or obstructing police officers or authorised
officers
54. 54. Evidence of authority
55. 55. Verification of record
56. 56. Tests and examinations of drivers
PART 7A - Management of public streets
56A. 56A. Temporary closure of public streets for public events
56B. 56B. Temporary closure of public streets in case of danger
56C. 56C. Certain activities prohibited on public streets
PART 7B - Photographic detection devices
56D. 56D. Declaration of photographic detection device
56E. 56E. Facilitation of proof
56F. 56F. Authorisation of persons to install and operate photographic
detection devices
PART 8 - Miscellaneous
57. 57. Registrar's power to fix fees
58. 58. Recovery of fees
58A. 58A. Vehicle inspection fees
59. 59. Payment of motor tax and fire levy
59A. 59A. Road safety levies to be deposited into Special Deposits
and Trust Fund
59B. 59B. Application of road safety levies
60. 60. Register not evidence of ownership
61. 61. Register not to be public record
62. 62. Immunity from liability
63. 63. Report of unfit driver or defective vehicle
64. 64. Offences of dishonesty
65. 65. Registrar to be notified of convictions for certain offences
66. 66. Property in documents
67. 67. Evidentiary certificates
67A. 67A. Evidence of measurement
68. 68. Proof of non-registration
68A. 68A. Exemption not to affect liability
69. 69. Administration of Act
70. 70. Transitional provisions consequent on Revenue Measures Act
2007
SCHEDULE 2
[ Note: This table has been automatically generated and may be incomplete. ]