Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to the
succeeding provisions of this regulation, the Director General may license a
motor vehicle as of any one of 3 classes, namely Class A, Class B or
Class C.
(2) The Director
General may license a motor vehicle, other than a restricted access vehicle,
as of Class A, for unlimited use, if the vehicle conforms, in every respect,
to the requirements of the Vehicle Standards, and not otherwise.
(3) The Director
General may license a motor vehicle as of Class B,
where —
(a) the
vehicle does not comply, in some respect, with the Vehicle Standards,
if —
(i)
the vehicle complies with the mass and dimension limits
in the Vehicle Standards; and
(ia) the
vehicle is not a restricted access vehicle; and
(ii)
the use of the vehicle is limited in such manner as the
Director General may direct and, in any event, is so limited that it will not
constitute a hazard to other road users;
or
(b) the
vehicle is an agricultural machine; or
(c) the
vehicle is a restricted access vehicle and the licensing of the vehicle is
specially approved, or the licensing of vehicles of its class is generally
approved, by the Director General and the use of the vehicle is limited in
conformity with any conditions to which that approval is subject.
(4) The Director
General may license, as of Class C, a restricted access vehicle
that —
(a) is
so constructed, or has such weight carried by one or more axles, that it could
not, without reconstruction, be made to conform to Schedule 1 to the
Road Traffic (Vehicle Standards) Regulations 2002 ; and
(b) is
of a class not designed primarily for the carriage of passengers or goods, but
for use in the industrial pursuits of mining, quarrying, earth moving, earth
drilling, forestry, timber getting, the making, maintenance or cleaning of
roads or the construction of major works,
if the licensing of
the vehicle is specially approved, or the licensing of vehicles of its class
is generally approved, by the Director General and the use of the vehicle is
limited in conformity with any condition to which that approval is subject.
(5) The Director
General shall endorse every licence of Class B or Class C with the limitations
to which its grant is subject and a person who uses, or permits or suffers a
person in his employ to use, a vehicle the subject of such a licence otherwise
than in conformity with those limitations commits an offence.
[Regulation 9 amended in Gazette
10 Nov 1977 p. 4190; 2 Feb 1982 p. 401;
28 Sep 1990 p. 5072-3; 31 Jan 1997 p. 683;
4 Aug 1998 p. 3991; 1 Nov 2002 p. 5391-2;
28 Nov 2006 p. 4904 and 4910-11.]