Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and Control) Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1976 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

TAXI-CARS (CO-ORDINATION

AND CONTROL).

No. 63 of 1976.

AN ACT to amend sections 24A and 24B of the Taxi-

cars (Co-ordination and Control) Act, 1963-1976.

[Assented to 22nd September, 1976.]

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:—

(Co-ordination and Control) Act Amendment Act and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Taxi-cars short title

(No. 2), 1976.

No. 63.] Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and [1976.

Control).

Reprinted as

In this Act the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and Control) Act, 1963-1976.

approved for (2)

reprint 17th

July, 1970	Control) Act, 1963-1976, is referred to as the
and amended
by Acts Nos.	principal Act.
2 of 1973, 50 of 1975, and 41 of 1976.
Commence-
ment.	2. This Act shall come into operation on the date on which section 5 of the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and Control) Act Amendment Act, 1976, comes into operation.
Section 24A
amended.	3. Subsection (1) of section 24A of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by deleting the word "fourteen", in line five, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty-eight"; and
(b)	by deleting the word "seven", in line eight of paragraph (b), and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty-one".

Section 2413

amended. 4. Subsection (3) of section 24B 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 or any member of 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. .