Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

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MOTOR VEHICLE (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE).

No. 19 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Motor Vehicle (Third Parts

Insurance) Act, 1943-1969.

[Assented to 8th May, 1970.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

of the Legislative Council and the LegislativeMajesty, by and with the advice and consent

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title

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

Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act Amendment

Act, 1970.

Insurance) Act, 1943-1969, is referred to as the ta t! (2) In this Act the Motor Vehicle (Third Party ninr2in i ten

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for reprin.

principal Act.

14th Febru-

ary, 1968

may be cited as the Motor Vehicle (Third Party 9n.1,4 (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act. garden

Insurance) Act, 1943-1970.

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Amendment

to 5. 3.

2. Subsection (1) of section 3 of the principal "the Chairman" in relation to the Tribunal means the person appointed to the office of Chairman of the Tribunal and includes a District Court Judge appointed pursuant to the District Court of Western Australia Act, 1969, acting as the Chairman of the Tribunal pursuant to this Act and a person appointed under subsection (14) of section 16 of this Act, to act as such Chairman; .

(Inter-

pretation.)

Act is amended by adding after the definition

"Prescribed date" a definition as follows

Amendment

to s. 16.	3. Section 16 of the principal Act is amended
(Establish-
ment of

Third Party	(a) by adding after subsection (13) subsections (13a) Any District Court Judge may, at the request of the Chairman and with the consent of the Chairman of Judges under the District Court of Western Australia Act, 1969, act in the place of the Chair- man, notwithstanding that the first- mentioned Chairman is not absent and is able to perform the duties of his office of Chairman.
Claims

Tribunal.) as follows

(13b) A District Court Judge who acts as the Chairman pursuant to subsection (13a) of this section

(a)	is, while he so acts, a member of the Tribunal and has the same powers and may exercise the same jurisdiction as the Chair- man;
(b)	is not entitled to be paid any remuneration under this section;
(c)	constitutes, together with one nominee member or both nominee members, the Tribunal;

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(d)	is not subject to subsection (16) or (17) of this section;
(e)	may sit in chambers concur- rently with the Chairman. .