MOTOR VEHICLE (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1943 - SECT 3QA

MOTOR VEHICLE (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1943 - SECT 3QA

3QA .         Agreements for performance of functions

        (1)         The Director General may enter into an agreement providing for the Director General’s functions under this Act that are described in the agreement to be performed on behalf of the Director General.

        (2)         The agreement may be with the Commissioner of Police, a local government, or any other person or body, whether or not the person or body has itself functions of a public nature.

        (3)         A function described in the agreement may be performed —

            (a)         in accordance with the agreement; and

            (b)         on and subject to terms and conditions in the agreement.

        (4)         If the performance of a function is dependent upon the opinion, belief, or state of mind of the Director General it may be performed under the agreement upon the opinion, belief, or state of mind of the body or person with whom the agreement is made or another person provided for in the agreement.

        (5)         For the purposes of this Act or any other written law, an act or thing done by, to, by reference to, or in relation to, a body or person in connection with the performance by that body or person under the agreement of a function of the Director General is as effectual as if it had been done by, to, by reference to, or in relation to, the Director General.

        [Section 3QA inserted: No. 7 of 2002 s. 17.]