Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act Amendment Act 1961 (WA)

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MOTOR VEHICLE (THIRD

PARTY INSURANCE).

10° Elizabeth II., No. LXX.

No. 70 of 1961.

AN ACT to amend the Motor Vehicle (Third Party

Insurance) Act, 1943-1960.

[Assented to 28th November, 1961.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Motor

Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act Amendment

Act, 1961.

Reprinted as

approved for	(2) In this Act the Motor Vehicle (Third Party (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act, 1943-1961.
reprint,
2nd March,	Insurance) Act, 1943-1960, is referred to as the
1961.	principal Act.

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amended.

2. Section thirty-one of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "report" in line one of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the words, "to the Minister";
(b)	by adding after the word, "reasonable" being the last word in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the passage, "and to make to the Minister, such recommendations, on any such question, as the Committee thinks fit";
(c)	by repealing subsection (2) and re-enacting it as follows:—

(2) The Committee shall consist of six

members of whom

(a)	one shall be a member of the Institute of Chartered Account- ants in Australia, practising accountancy in the State, and who shall be appointed as Chair- man of the Committee;
(b)	one shall be the person for the time being holding the office of General Manager of the State Government Insurance Office;
(c)	one shall be the person, not being a member of the Trust, nominated by the participating approved insurers that are not members of the body known as the Fire and Accident Under- writers' Association of Western Australia;
(d)	one shall be the person, not being a member of the Trust, nominated by the participating approved insurers that are

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members of the body known as the Fire and Accident Under- writers' Association of Western Australia;

(e)	one shall be a person nominated by the governing body of The Royal Automobile Club of W.A. (Inc.), who shall represent the owners of motor vehicles;
(f)	one shall be the person nomin- ated by the Minister. ;

(d) by adding after subsection (2) a subsec- tion as follows:—

(2a) The members of the committee are entitled to receive such remuneration for their services as may be prescribed and the remuneration shall be paid out of the Fund. ; and

(e) by repealing subsection (3).