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Western Australia
Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2003
CONTENTS
1. Short title 1
2. Commencement 2
3. The Act amended 2
4. Section 5 amended 2
5. Section 113 inserted 2
6. Validation 4
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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2003
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1974 and for related purposes.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Amendment
Act 2003.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
3. The Act amended
5 The amendments in this Act are to the Road Traffic Act 1974*.
[* Reprinted as at 19 October 2001.
For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2002, Table 1, p. 342 and
Acts Nos. 45 of 2002 and 9 and 50 of 2003 and Gazette
10 amendment 20 May 2003 p. 1804.]
4. Section 5 amended
Section 5(1) is amended in paragraph (a) of the definition of
"licensing provisions of this Act" by inserting after "82" --
" , section 113 ".
15 5. Section 113 inserted
After section 112 the following section is inserted --
"
113. Schemes for optional number plates
(1) The regulations may provide for schemes under which
20 the Director General --
(a) allocates number plates (in this section called
"optional number plates") to persons wishing
to reserve the right to use those number plates
instead of number plates that would otherwise
25 be issued under this Act;
(b) supplies and, if necessary, replaces optional
number plates;
(c) permits the transfer from one person to another
of the right to use optional number plates;
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(d) gives directions as to which vehicle optional
number plates are to be used on;
(e) is given the power to cancel, with or without
compensation, a person's right to use optional
5 number plates if charges due and payable in
respect of that right remain unpaid for a period
prescribed in the regulations.
(2) The rights may be for a specified period or otherwise.
(3) A scheme may be designed to be operated
10 commercially but --
(a) the sale of the rights allocated is to be --
(i) by public auction or public tender; or
(ii) if the Treasurer authorises the sale to be
by private treaty or any other means, by
15 the means authorised;
and
(b) any other charge under a scheme is to be
prescribed in the regulations.
(4) The amount of a charge that may be prescribed under
20 subsection (3)(b) is not limited to the amount needed to
recover costs even though it is for a matter for which
only a fee could be prescribed if the number plates
were not optional number plates.
(5) The regulations may deal with matters that it is
25 necessary or convenient to deal with for the purposes
of, or in connection with, schemes relating to optional
number plates.
".
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6. Validation
Regulations made before the commencement of this Act are,
and are to be regarded as having always been, as valid and
effective as they would have been if, before those regulations
5 were made --
(a) this Act had been enacted and had commenced; and
(b) the Treasurer had, in accordance with
section 113(3)(a)(ii) as inserted by this Act, authorised
the sale by private treaty of rights allocated.
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