DUTIES ACT 2000 - SECT 233D Government or charitable vehicle used to convey incapacitated person

DUTIES ACT 2000 - SECT 233D

    (1)     No duty is chargeable under this Chapter on an application for registration or transfer of registration of a vehicle referred to in subsection (2) that is registered or to be registered in the name of—

        (a)     a charitable, benevolent or religious institution; or

        (b)     the Crown; or

        (c)     a public statutory authority; or

        (d)     a municipal council.

    (2)     Subsection (1) applies to a vehicle that—

        (a)     is specially converted to provide wheelchair access to and egress from the vehicle; and

        (b)     is capable of carrying at least one occupied wheelchair; and

        (c)     is or is to be used for conveying an incapacitated person whose mobility is seriously impaired; and

        (d)     is marked with the name of the registered operator or, in the case of the Crown, with the name of the relevant department or agency; and

S. 233D(2)(e) amended by No. 6/2010 s. 203(1)

(Sch. 6 item 13.5) (as amended by No. 45/2010 s. 22), substituted by No. 63/2017 s. 21(Sch.  1 item 2.3).

        (e)     is not a commercial passenger vehicle (within the meaning of the Commercial Passenger Vehicle Industry Act 2017 ).

S. 233E inserted by No. 85/2005 s. 13, amended by No. 42/2012 s. 7 (ILA s. 39B(1)).