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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Road Traffic Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2000
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
(No. 2) 2000.
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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 1999 Index to Legislation of
Western Australia, Table 1, p. 219.]
4. Section 5 amended
Section 5 is amended in the definition of "road" by deleting
10 "thereon;" and inserting instead --
"
on the highway, road or street, and, in the
regulations, includes any other area that the
Minister has ordered under section 103A to be an
15 area to which the regulations apply;
".
5. Sections 103A and 103B inserted
After section 103 the following sections are inserted in
Part VI --
20 "
103A. Power to include areas in the scope of specified
regulations
(1) The Minister may order, by notice in the Gazette, that a
specified area of the State that is open to or used by the
25 public is an area to which specified regulations apply.
(2) Such an order has effect until it is revoked or for the
period specified in the order.
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103B. Power to grant exemptions from specified
regulations
The regulations may provide for the Minister to
declare, by notice in writing in accordance with the
5 regulations, that a specified requirement of the
regulations does not apply to a specified person or
vehicle.
".
6. Section 111 amended
10 Section 111(2)(d) is deleted and the following paragraphs are
inserted instead --
"
(d) prescribing standards for vehicles, including
standards relating to --
15 (i) the design, construction, efficiency and
performance of, and the equipment to be
carried on, vehicles;
(ii) the attachment of operational or safety
devices;
20 (iii) mass and dimension limits of vehicles
and their loads;
(iv) roadworthiness;
(v) safety, emissions and noise;
(vi) the coupling of trailers and motor
25 vehicles;
(vii) the identification of vehicles or
components of vehicles;
(viii) loading and unloading and securing of
loads;
30 (ix) vehicles whose size, mass or load
exceeds limits set by the regulations;
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(x) security of vehicles and the equipment
to be fitted to vehicles for the purposes
of security; and
(xi) the keeping and production of records;
5 (daa) applying, adopting or incorporating, with or
without modification, any instrument or writing
relating to vehicle standards, as in force or
existing at the time the regulations take effect;
".
10 7. Section 111A inserted
After section 111 the following section is inserted --
"
111A. Adoption of other laws, codes etc.
(1) Regulations made under section 111 may adopt, either
15 wholly or in part or with modifications --
(a) a national standard determined under the Motor
Vehicle Standards Act 1989 of the
Commonwealth; or
(b) any of the standards, rules, codes or
20 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
adopted as in force from time to time unless the
25 regulations specify that a particular text is adopted.
".
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