Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) The Director
General shall provide and issue identification plates or number plates in
respect of every vehicle that is licensed under Part III of the Act other
than —
(a) a
vehicle which is being, or is to be, operated as a taxi using taxi plates
issued under the Taxi Act 1994 ;
(b) a
taxi-car licensed under the Transport Co-ordination Act 1966 ; and
(c) an
omnibus licensed under the Transport Co-ordination Act 1966 (not being an
omnibus operated by the Western Australian Government Railways Commission).
[(2) deleted]
(2a) The Director
General may on behalf of the Crown in right of the State dispose of the right
to display special plates by public auction or public tender or private
treaty.
(3) Despite any
charges imposed under the Road Traffic (Charges and Fees) Regulations 2006 ,
every identification tablet or number plate remains the property of the
Director General and is to be returned to the Director General by a
responsible person for, or other person in possession of, the
vehicle —
(a) if
the licence is cancelled or the licensee is disqualified, as soon as
practicable after the cancellation or disqualification; or
(b) if
the licence has expired —
(i)
in the case of a seasonal heavy vehicle licence, within
one year of the expiry of the licence; and
(ii)
in any other case, within 3 months of the expiry of
the licence.
(3a) At any time
whilst a compliance notice under Part 7 of the
Road Traffic (Vehicle Standards) Regulations 2002 is in force for a vehicle,
the Director General may, by notice served on a person responsible for, or
other person in possession of, that vehicle, demand the return of
identification tablets or number plates issued in respect of that vehicle and
the person upon whom such a notice is served shall forthwith return those
identification tablets or number plates to the Director General.
(4) A person who
wishes to obtain personalised plates, special plates or name plates to replace
ordinary plates previously issued in respect of a vehicle shall return those
ordinary plates to the Director General.
(5) Except in a case
referred to in subregulation (6) a person who wishes to obtain ordinary
plates to replace personalised plates, special plates or name plates
previously issued in respect of a vehicle shall return those personalised
plates, special plates or name plates, as the case may be, to the Director
General.
(6) A person to whom a
set of personalised plates, special plates or name plates has been issued may,
with the approval of the Director General, and on payment of the relevant fee
prescribed under the Road Traffic (Charges and Fees) Regulations 2006 to the
Director General, transfer those plates —
(a) in
the case of special plates or name plates, to another vehicle owned by him; or
(b) in
the case of personalised plates, to another vehicle owned by him or by a
member of his immediate family,
and shall, where the
vehicle from which the personalised plates, special plates or name plates, as
the case may be, were removed, is still licensed, obtain a set of ordinary
plates from the Director General and affix those plates to the vehicle.
(7) The Director
General shall not issue special plates or name plates in respect of the
following kinds of vehicles —
(a)
taxis;
(b)
omnibuses; and
(c)
heavy vehicles that are the subject of a seasonal heavy vehicle licence.
[Regulation 22 inserted in Gazette
1 Aug 1975 p. 2795-6; amended in Gazette 5 Dec 1975
p. 4369; 15 Oct 1976 p. 3676; 20 May 1977
p. 1511; 10 Nov 1977 p. 4190; 30 Dec 1977
p. 4751; 10 Mar 1978 p. 688; 29 Sep 1978
p. 3579; 11 May 1979 p. 1223; 12 Dec 1980
p. 4215; 26 Jun 1981 p. 2296; 2 Feb 1982
p. 402; 20 Aug 1982 p. 3270; 23 Sep 1983
p. 3815; 21 Oct 1983 p. 4270; 11 Nov 1983
p. 4512; 14 Dec 1984 p. 4129; 24 May 1985
p. 1761-2; 29 Nov 1985 p. 4452 (erratum in Gazette
6 Dec 1985 p. 4532); 11 Apr 1986 p. 1382;
26 Sep 1986 p. 3691; 10 Jun 1988 p. 1906;
8 Sep 1989 p. 3171-2; 21 Sep 1990 p. 4940-1;
28 Sep 1990 p. 5072-3; 6 Sep 1991 p. 4713;
13 Mar 1992 p. 1205; 26 Jun 1992 p. 2795;
17 Aug 1993 p. 4430-1; 31 Dec 1993 p. 6908;
22 Jul 1994 p. 3788; 10 Jan 1995 p. 65;
31 Jan 1997 p. 683; 1 Nov 2002 p. 5393;
23 Dec 2005 p. 6284; 28 Nov 2006 p. 4906.]