Road Traffic (Drivers' Licences) Amendment Regulations 1995 (WA)

10 January 19951 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 65

PE303 ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974

ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVERS' LICENCES) AMENDMENT

REGULATIONS 1995

For amendments to 21 December 1994 see 1993 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 230 and Gazette of 13 December 1994.1

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.  These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Drivers' Licences)

Amendment Regulations 1995.

Commencement

2. These regulations come into operation on the day Part 6 of the Taxi Act

1994 comes into operation.

Principal regulations

3. In these regulations the Road Traffic (Drivers' Licences) Regulations

1975* are referred to as the principal regulations.

L* Reprinted in the Gazette of 2 July 1986 at pp. 2263-75.

66 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [10 January 1995

Regulation 3 amended

4.   Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in item A (i) by deleting "except where the motor car comes within Class G or Class H of this classification";

(b) by deleting item G;
(c) in item H by deleting ", taxi-car or private taxi-car"; and

(d) by inserting after item N the following item —

cc

T. Any vehicle being operated as a taxi under the Taxi Act 1994 or the Transport Co-ordination Act 1966.

Regulation 4 amended

5.   Regulation 4 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in subregulation (4) by inserting after "Class F" the following -

CC

or Class T "; and

(b) by inserting after subregulation (4) the following subregulations —

CC

The holder of a driver's licence appropriate to Class T is only entitled to drive a vehicle which is being operated as a taxi if he is also the holder of a driver's licence appropriate to the class, other than Class T, to which that vehicle belongs.

(5)

(6)

An applicant for a licence to drive a Class T vehicle shall have been the holder of a driver's licence appropriate to the class, other than Class T, to which the vehicle being, or to be, operated as a taxi belongs, for a period of not less than 12 months.

Regulation 5 amended

6.   Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) by deleting the item relating to Class G; and 1,

(b) by adding after the item relating to Class N the following item —

" Class T 21 years

By His Excellency's Command,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Council.