Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Where a motor vehicle
to which this Part applies and which is owned by a person who is not a
permanent resident of any State or Territory of the Commonwealth is landed in
this State direct from any country outside the Commonwealth, the owner of the
vehicle is entitled, on application to the Director General and subject to the
provisions of sections 34 and 35, to be granted a vehicle licence for
that vehicle without payment of the vehicle licence charge, for a period not
exceeding 12 months calculated from the date when the vehicle was landed
in this State, if it appears to the Director General that there are in
force —
(a) a
vehicle licence or registration effected in relation to that vehicle under the
law of the country of which the owner is a permanent resident; and
(b) a
contract of insurance with respect to the vehicle as provided in
section 4 of the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 ,
but the period for
which the Director General grants a licence under this section shall not
extend beyond the date of the expiry of the licence or registration effected
under the law of that country nor beyond the date of the expiry of the
contract of insurance.
[Section 31 amended by No. 105 of 1981
s. 19; No. 21 of 1995 s. 9; No. 76 of 1996 s. 20(3);
No. 28 of 2001 s. 16, 23(3) and 24.]