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VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC ACT 1999

- Act 70 of 1999 - Royal Assent 24 November 1999

Table of Provisions

Long Title

PART 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

  • 5 Appointment of Registrar
  • 6 Responsibilities of Registrar
  • 7 Delegation

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

  • 14 Driving instructors
  • 15 Public passenger vehicles
  • 16 Compliance with conditions

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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