Road Maintenance (Contribution) Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1976 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ROAD MAINTENANCE

(CONTRIBUTION) (No. 2).

No. 74 of 1976.

AN ACT to amend sections 19 and 20 of the Road

Maintenance (Contribution) Act, 1965-1976.

[Assented to 18th October, 1976.E

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

I-' 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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Road Plinigttlieo„.

Maintenance (Contribution) Act Amendment Act

(No. 2), 1976.

(2) In this Act the Road Maintenance ACt a llo 69 of

(Contribution) Act, 1965-1976 is referred to as the fIrgtesntilgi. 176

principal Act.	of 1970, 94
of 1972, and
23 of 1976.

No. 74.] Road Maintenance (Contribution) [1976.

(No. 2).

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Road Maintenance (Contribution) Act, 1965-1976.

Commence- 2. This Act shall come into operation on the

ment.

date on which the Road Maintenance (Contribution)

Act Amendment Act, 1976 comes into operation.

Section 19

amended. 3. Section 19 of the principal Act is amended

(a) as to subsection (1)-

(i)    by deleting the word "fourteen", in line five, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty-eight"; and

(ii)    by deleting the word "seven", in line nine of paragraph (b), and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty-one"; and

(b) by adding after subsection (4) a subsection as follows

(5) The Governor may make regula- tions prescribing all things that are necessary to be prescribed for the purposes of this section and of section twenty of this Act. .

Section 20

amended. 4. Subsection (3) of section 20 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "it" being the last word in the subsection a passage as follows-

, but the fact that a copy of the separate document was served on the defendant shall not be communicated to the Court unless and until the defendant has been convicted of the offence alleged in that complaint, if the disclosure of the prior convictions alleged in the separate document is not admissible under the laws of evidence apart from this section. .