Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to this
regulation, identification tablets and number plates shall display the
expression “W.A.” or “Western Australia” and such
other words, letters and numerals as the Director General with the approval of
the Minister may determine.
[(2) deleted]
(3) Identification
tablets or number plates may be issued by the Director General displaying a
letter or letters approved by the Director General indicating the district in
which a responsible person for the vehicle resides, together with a numeral or
numerals and shall in addition have the expression “W.A.” or
“Western Australia”, displayed above the letter or letters,
numeral or numerals, or contained in any words displayed pursuant to
subregulation (1), on the identification tablet or number plate.
(4) Any identification
tablet or number plate issued pursuant to subregulation (3) to a
responsible person residing in the district of a Shire, shall have enamelled
or painted in the same colour as the lettering and numerals, a circular figure
in the shape of a disc of approximately 38 millimetres in diameter, between
the lettering and the numerals unless the letters on the identification tablet
or number plate indicating the district are not duplicated in any other
district in which case the Director General may issue a tablet or plate
without the circular figure in the shape of a disc.
(4a) Special plates
may consist of —
(a) a
non-reflective tablet containing the expression “W.A.” or
“Western Australia” in white arranged vertically on the left of
the tablet and white numerals arranged horizontally on a black background;
(b) a
unique series consisting of the trade name of a particular make or model of
vehicle in black letters on a white reflective background; or
(c) a
unique series, other than a unique series referred to in paragraph (b),
consisting of —
(i)
a reflective background containing such words, letters,
numerals, symbols, or logo; or
(ii)
such reflective words, letters, numerals, symbols, or
logo on a non-reflective background,
as may be approved by
the Director General and using such colours as are approved by the Director
General.
(4b) Name plates may
consist of a reflective background containing the expression
“W.A.” or “Western Australia” in blue arranged
horizontally at the top of the tablet and such number of letters that
constitute a name or a combination of name or acronym chosen by the applicant
with the approval of the Director General.
(5) Identification
tablets and number plates shall bear the prescribed characters enamelled or
painted thereon, in the colour and on the background approved by the Director
General for the class of tablets or plates concerned.
(6) Except where the
identification tablets or number plates are special plates, the Director
General may, by notice served on a licensee, require the licensee to surrender
to the Director General any identification tablets or number plates specified
in the notice that are not reflective plates and on receipt of any fee payable
for the issue of the plates under the Road Traffic
(Charges and Fees) Regulations 2006 , issue to the licensee a set of
reflective plates by way of replacement.
(6a) The Director
General may, by notice served on a licensee, require the licensee to surrender
to the Director General any identification tablets or number plates specified
in the notice that are issued in respect of an interchangeable semi-trailer
the licence for which was granted on payment of a reduced fee in accordance
with a direction of the Director General under the
Road Traffic (Charges and Fees) Regulations 2006 regulation 17 and on
receipt of the appropriate fee payable under regulation 22 for the issue
of plates, issue to the licensee a set of number plates with the letters
“IT” and the word “interchangeable” on the plate by
way of replacement.
(7) For the purposes
of subregulations (6) and (6a), a notice may be served on a licensee
by —
(a)
personally serving the notice upon him;
(b) by
serving the notice upon him through the ordinary course of the post; or
(c) by
leaving the notice addressed to the licensee, without naming him or stating
his address, in, upon or attached to the vehicle to which are affixed the
identification tablets or number plates to which the notice relates.
(8) A licensee who
fails, within 14 days after the service on him of a notice pursuant to
subregulations (6) and (6a) to surrender to the licensing authority, the
identification tablets or number plates specified in the notice commits an
offence.
[Regulation 24 inserted in Gazette
1 Aug 1975 p. 2796; amended in Gazette 12 Aug 1977
p. 2610; 2 Feb 1982 p. 402; 24 May 1985
p. 1762; 29 Nov 1985 p. 4452; 15 May 1987
p. 2122; 10 Jun 1988 p. 1906; 1 Jul 1988
p. 2145; 6 Sep 1991 p. 4714; 17 Aug 1993
p. 4431; 22 Dec 1995 p. 6195; 31 Jan 1997
p. 683; 1 Jul 1997 p. 3273; 23 Dec 2005
p. 6284; 28 Nov 2006 p. 4907 and 4911.]