Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The Governor may make
such regulations as may be necessary or convenient for carrying out or giving
effect to the provisions of this Part and, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, by such regulations may —
(a)
prescribe the particulars to be stated in any application made under
section 31 or 33;
(b)
prescribe the type of temporary number plates to be issued by the Director
General, the charge for temporary number plates and the conditions of their
use, and provide for their surrender before the vehicles in respect of which
they are issued are taken out of Australia;
(c)
provide for the issue by the Director General at a prescribed charge of plates
displaying the words “Left-Hand Drive” in letters at least 50
millimetres high to owners of vehicles to which this Part applies and which
have the steering apparatus on the left-hand side of the vehicle;
(d)
prescribe the charge for those plates;
(e)
prescribe the conditions under which “Left-Hand Drive” vehicles to
which this Part applies may be used on any road in this State;
(f)
prescribe the nature and kind of information and particulars owners of
vehicles to which this Part applies are to give the Director General at any
specified time or from time to time;
(g)
authorise the licensing under this Part and the use in this State of vehicles
to which this Part applies notwithstanding that any regulations relating to
the construction, appliances, lamps and other equipment have not been complied
with; and
(h)
require every vehicle to which this Part applies and in respect of which any
regulations referred to in paragraph (g) have not been complied with to
be converted so as to comply with those regulations when the owner becomes, or
the vehicle is transferred to, a permanent resident of the Commonwealth.
[Section 40 amended by No. 105 of 1981
s. 19; No. 76 of 1996 s. 20(3).]