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