Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Where a licence
granted without payment of the vehicle licence charge under section 31,
or a licence granted, or a registration effected, free of charge by any
licensing or registering authority of another State or a Territory of the
Commonwealth, in respect of a motor vehicle to which this Part applies,
expires, the owner of the vehicle is, if the vehicle is being used in this
State, on application to the Director General and subject to the provisions of
sections 34 and 35, entitled to an extension or a renewal of the licence
or registration by the Director General without payment of the vehicle licence
charge for a period not extending beyond the period of 12 months from the
date on which the vehicle was landed in the Commonwealth, if it appears to the
Director General that there are in force —
(a) a
vehicle licence or registration effected in respect of 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 3(4), or in section 4, of the Motor Vehicle (Third
Party Insurance) Act 1943 ,
but the period for
which the Director General extends or renews the licence or registration under
this section is not to extend beyond the date of the expiry of the licence or
registration, as the case may be, effected under the law of that country nor
beyond the date of the expiry of the contract of insurance.
[Section 33 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. 23(2) and 24.]