Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Amendment Regulations 2003 (TAS)

Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Amendment Regulations 2003

I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Act 1973 .20 October 2003

W. J. E. COX

Lieutenant-Governor

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. G. COX

Minister for Infrastructure

1Short titleThese regulations may be cited as the Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Amendment Regulations 2003 . 2CommencementThese regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette. 3Principal RegulationsIn these regulations, the Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Regulations 2000 are referred to as the Principal Regulations. 4Regulation 9 substituted Regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations is rescinded and the following regulation is substituted: 9Prescribed trailer (1)  In this regulation – agricultural implement means an implement that is built to – (a) be towed by a motor vehicle; and (b) perform agricultural tasks; agricultural machine means an agricultural machine as defined in the Vehicle and Traffic (Driver Licensing and Vehicle Registration) Regulations 2000. (2) For the purposes of section 29(1AA) of the Act, the following kinds of trailer are prescribed: (a) a trailer, other than a caravan, with an unladen mass of not more than half a tonne; (b) an agricultural implement towed by another motor vehicle; (c) a trailer towed by an agricultural machine operating as an agricultural machine.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 29 October 2003

These regulations are administered by the Motor Accidents Insurance Board.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation) These regulations amend the

(a) an agricultural implement towed by a motor vehicle; or (b) a trailer towed by an agricultural machine operating as an agricultural machine.