Road Traffic Amendment Act 1998 (WA)

Western Australia

Road Traffic Amendment Act 1998

No. 52 of 1998

An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1974.

[Assented to 7 December 1998]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Amendment Act 1998.

No. 52 of 1998 page 1

Road Traffic Amendment Act 1998

s. 2

2.             Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Road Traffic Act 1974*.

[* Reprinted as at 25 March 1997.

For subsequent amendments see 1997 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 203 and Gazette 12 May 1998 and 3 July 1998 .]

4.             Section 24A inserted

After section 24 the following section is inserted —

“

24A.

Requirement to make declaration on applying for

grant or transfer of vehicle licence

(1)

Regulations may require an applicant for the grant or

transfer of a licence in respect of a vehicle to declare in

writing that the vehicle meets any prescribed standard or

requirement relating to the security of vehicles that applies

to that vehicle.

(2)

If the applicant does not comply with a requirement of

regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1), it may

be taken for the purposes of section 23(a) that the vehicle

concerned does not meet the prescribed standard or

requirement.

”.

Road Traffic Amendment Act 1998

s. 5

5.             Section 111 amended

Section 111(2)(d) is amended by inserting after “fitted to, vehicles” —

“

for the purposes of road safety, the security of vehicles

or any related matter relating to road traffic,

”.