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Western Australia
Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001
CONTENTS
1. Short title 1
2. Commencement 2
3. The Act amended 2
4. Sections 103A and 103B inserted 2
5. Section 111 amended 3
6. Section 111A inserted 4
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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
(As amended during consideration in detail)
Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1974.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Amendment Act 2001.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.
3. The Act amended
The amendments in this Act are to the Road Traffic Act 1974*.
5 [* Reprinted as at 17 September 1999.
For subsequent amendments see 2000 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 393,
and Act Nos. 39 and 51 of 2000.]
4. Sections 103A and 103B inserted
10 After section 103 the following sections are inserted in
Part VI --
"
103A. Power to include areas in the scope of specified
regulations
15 (1) The Minister may declare that a regulation specified in
the declaration applies to a specified area of the State
that is open to or used by the public.
(2) A declaration has effect for the period specified in it
unless it is sooner revoked.
20 103B. Power to grant exemptions from specified
regulations
(1) The regulations may provide for the Minister to
declare, in writing in accordance with the regulations,
that a specified requirement of the regulations does not
25 apply to a specified person or vehicle.
(2) The regulations may provide for the Director General
to grant exemptions from provisions of the regulations
prescribing standards for vehicles.
".
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5. Section 111 amended
Section 111(2)(d) is deleted and the following paragraphs are
inserted instead --
"
5 (d) prescribing standards for vehicles, including
standards relating to --
(i) the design, construction, efficiency and
performance of, and the equipment to be
carried on, vehicles;
10 (ii) the attachment of operational or safety
devices;
(iii) mass and dimension limits of vehicles
and their loads;
(iv) roadworthiness;
15 (v) safety, emissions and noise;
(vi) the coupling of trailers and motor
vehicles;
(vii) the identification of vehicles or
components of vehicles;
20 (viii) loading and unloading and securing of
loads;
(ix) vehicles whose size, mass or load
exceeds limits set by the regulations;
(x) security of vehicles and the equipment
25 to be fitted to vehicles for the purposes
of security; and
(xi) the keeping and production of records;
(daa) applying, adopting or incorporating, with or
without modification, any instrument or writing
30 relating to vehicle standards, as in force or
existing at the time the regulations take effect;
".
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6. Section 111A inserted
After section 111 the following section is inserted --
"
111A. Adoption of other laws, codes etc.
5 (1) Regulations made under section 111 may adopt, either
wholly or in part or with modifications --
(a) a national standard determined under the Motor
Vehicle Standards Act 1989 of the
Commonwealth; or
10 (b) any of the standards, rules, codes or
specifications of the body known as Standards
Australia or a similar specified body.
(2) If any subsidiary legislation, standard, rule, code or
specification is adopted under subsection (1), it is
15 adopted as in force from time to time unless the
regulations specify that a particular text is adopted.
".
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