WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
ROAD TRAFFIC.
No. 10 of 1979.
AN ACT to amend section 19 of and the Second Schedule to, and to add section 28A to, the Road Traffic Act, 1974-1977, and to make related transitional provisions.
[Assented to 18th May, 1979.]
BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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
| 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Act Amendment Act, 1979. | and |
| citation. |
In this Act the Road Traffic Act, 1974-1977 is 0219o. 59
| (2) | 4 as |
| referred to as theprincipal Act. | amended |
| by Acts Nos. | |
| 77 and 93 of | |
| 1975, Nos. 17, |
| (3) | The principal Act as amended by this Act may 48and 135 of | 1976 and No. |
| be cited as the Road Traffic Act, 1974-1979. | 4 of 1977. |
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| Saving. | 2. (1) The provisions of the principal Act as in force immediately before the coming into operation of this Act shall continue to apply to and in relation to |
| (a) | the grant of a vehicle licence if that licence is granted before the first day of July, 1979; and |
| (b) | the renewal of a vehicle licence if, pursuant to subsection (4) of section 18 of the principal Act, that renewal has effect, or is deemed to have effect, on and from a day not later than the thirtieth day of June, 1979. |
(2) In subsection (1) of this section "vehicle licence" has the same meaning as that expression has in and for the purposes of the principal Act.
Section 19
| amended. | 3. Section 19 of the principal Act is amended |
| (a) | as to subsection (12), by deleting the words "only one-half" in line two and substituting the words "a licence fee of ten dollars in lieu"; |
| (b) | by adding after subsection (12) subsections as follows |
(12a) The Authority shall, in respect of any vehicle to which this subsection applies, charge a licence fee of ten dollars in lieu of the fee payable according to the scale in Part III of the Second Schedule where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Authority that the vehicle is owned by a person carrying on the business of stock transporting and will be used during the currency of the licence solely for the carriage of stock.
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(12b) Subsection (12a) of this section applies to any vehicle the tare weight of which exceeds one thousand five hundred and twenty-four kilograms. ; and
(c) by adding after subsection (14) a subsection
as follows
(14a) The Authority shall charge only one-half of the licence fee that but for this subsection would be payable in respect of
| (a) | a diesel engined vehicle not being- |
(i) a motor wagon the tare weight of which exceeds five thousand eight hundred and sixty-five kilograms; or
(ii) a tractor…