Road Traffic (Authorisation to Drive) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2022 (WA)

2 November 2022 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5085

Road Traffic (Authorisation to Drive) Act 2008

Road Traffic (Authorisation to Drive) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2022

SL 2022/179

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Road Traffic (Authorisation to Drive)
Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2022.

2.             Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a) Part 1 — on the day on which these regulations are

published in the Gazette;

(b) Part 2 — on the day on which the Emergency

Management Amendment (Temporary COVID-19

Provisions) Act 2022 section 7 comes into operation;

(c) the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the

Emergency Management Amendment (Temporary

COVID-19 Provisions) Act 2022 section 30 comes into operation.

3.             Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Road Traffic (Authorisation to
Drive) Regulations 2014.

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Part 2 — Amendments relating to Emergency

Management Act 2005 Part 6A

4.             Regulation 60B amended

(1)	After regulation 60B(1) insert:
(1A)	The CEO may also exercise the CEO’s powers under
either or both of subregulations (2) and (3) if —

(a) the Emergency Management Act 2005

a COVID-19 declaration has been made under still in force); and

(b) the CEO considers that it is necessary to

exercise those powers —

(i)      for the purpose of ameliorating a shortage of drivers, or drivers who are authorised to drive vehicles of a particular class, that has arisen in connection with the occurrence of COVID-19, or the response to the occurrence of COVID-19, in the area to which the declaration applies; or

(ii)      as a result of impediments to the administrative processes involved in the

grant of drivers’ licences that have

arisen in connection with the occurrence
of COVID-19, or the response to the
occurrence of COVID-19, in the area to
which the declaration applies.

(2)	In regulation 60B(5)(a) after “declaration” insert:
or COVID-19 declaration
Note: The heading to amended regulation 60B is to read:

2 November 2022 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5087

Part 3 — Amendments relating to deletion of

Emergency Management Act 2005 Part 6A

5.             Regulation 60B amended

(1)	Delete regulation 60B(1A).
(2)	In regulation 60B(5)(a) delete “or COVID-19 declaration”.
Note: The heading to amended regulation 60B is to read:

V. MOLAN, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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