Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) 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, when
landed in or brought to this State, is equipped with one or more number plates
in accordance with the law of the country, or the States or Territory of the
Commonwealth from which it was so landed or brought, those number plates are
to be regarded, so long as the vehicle licence under this Act remains or is
regarded to be in force and the vehicle is being used temporarily within the
Commonwealth, as number plates issued under this Act.
(2) Where the vehicle
is not so equipped or where the number plate is so mutilated that any material
part is obscured, obliterated or indistinct, the Director General shall, on
payment of the prescribed charge, issue to the person a temporary plate or
plates which he shall affix to the vehicle in the manner prescribed and which
are to be regarded, so long as a vehicle licence or registration under this
Act remains in force in respect of the vehicle and the vehicle is being used
temporarily within the Commonwealth, as a number plate or plates issued under
this Act.
[Section 39 amended by No. 105 of 1981
s. 19; No. 76 of 1996 s. 20(3).]