Motor Vehicles Act 1959 (SA)

South Australia

Motor Vehicles Act 1959

An Act to make provision for the registration of motor vehicles, drivers licences and third party motor insurance; and for other purposes.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles Act 1959.

1. (1)

   This Act binds the Crown in right of the State and also, so far as the legislative power of the State extends, in all its other capacities.

2. (2)

   No criminal liability attaches to the Crown itself (as distinct from its agents, instrumentalities, officers and employees) under this Act.

1. (1)

   In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires or some other meaning is clearly intended—

accident means a collision or impact (whether caused accidentally or on purpose) resulting in damage to a motor vehicle;

accident towing direction, in relation to a motor vehicle damaged in an accident, means a direction to tow that motor vehicle from the scene of the accident, being a direction given to a towtruck operator by or on behalf of a police officer in accordance with the accident towing roster scheme;

accident towing roster scheme means the accident towing roster scheme provided for by the regulations;

agriculture includes horticulture, viticulture, dairying, bee keeping, livestock production and other similar activity;

and agricultural has a corresponding meaning;

agricultural implement means a vehicle without its own automotive power, built to perform agricultural tasks;

agricultural machine means a machine with its own automotive power, built to perform agricultural tasks;

alcohol interlock means a device or system of a kind approved by the Minister by notice in the Gazette as an alcohol interlock for the purposes of this Act;

alcohol interlock scheme conditions means—

1. (a)

   the mandatory alcohol interlock scheme conditions; or

2. (b)

   the voluntary alcohol interlock scheme conditions;

approved alcohol interlock provider means a person, or a person of a class, approved by the Minister by notice in the Gazette as a provider of alcohol interlocks for the purposes of this Act;

authority to tow, in relation to a damaged motor vehicle, means authorisation in writing to remove the motor vehicle given for the purposes of this Act by the owner or person in charge of the vehicle or an authorised officer or police officer;

authorised examiner means—

1. (a)

   a police officer appointed by the Commissioner of Police for the purpose of conducting practical driving tests; or

2. (b)

   a person appointed by the Registrar for the purpose of conducting practical driving tests; or

3. (c)

   a person appointed by some public authority, and approved by the Registrar, for the purpose of conducting practical driving tests;

authorised officer means a person appointed as an authorised officer under section 35 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 or a person of a class of persons appointed as authorised officers under that section;

the balance of the prescribed registration fee, in relation to a motor vehicle registered under this Act at a…