Traffic Act Amendment Act 1931 (WA)

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TRAFFIC.

22° GEO. V., No. III.

No. 3 of 1931.

AN ACT to amend the Traffic Aet, 1919-1930.

[Assented to 24th June, 1931.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Traffic Act Amendment

Act, 1931.

Amendment of

Section ten of the Traffic Act, 1919-1930, as reprinted in the 1930 volume of the Statutes (hereinafter called the "principal Act"), is hereby amended by the addition of a proviso, as follows:—

9.  2.

"Provided, further, that only one-half of the fee pay- able, according to the scale in the third schedule, shall be chargeable in any case in which it is proved to the satisfaction of the licensing authority--

(i) that the license applied for is required for a motor wagon, motor carrier, trailer, or semi-trailer which is owned by a person carrying on the business of farming and/or grazing on any farm or other land and will be used during the currency of the license solely or mainly for the carriage of the products of or requisites for such business, or (if the farm or land is north of the twenty- sixth parallel of south latitude) between such farm or land and the nearest shipping port; pro- vided the distance measured by the length of

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existing roads to such port is less than the distance measured by the length of existing roads to the nearest station or siding; or

(ii)    that the license is required for a motor vehicle which is owned by a bona fide prospector, and which will

be used by such person during the currency of the license, solely or mainly in connection with his occupation of prospecting; or

(iii)    that the license is required for a motor vehicle which is owned by a bona fide sandalwood puller and

which will be used by such person during the cur- rency of the license solely or mainly in connection with the occupation of sandalwooding."

nsertionrof new

3. A section is hereby inserted after section eleven of the cation efteris. 11

principal Act, as follows:-

11A. (L) The owner of a motor vehicle, trailer or AlgifcieriT

semi-trailer, whether previously licensed or not, may apply for and be granted a license for such vehicle for any half-year ending on the thirty-first day of December or the thirtieth day of June.

Such application shall be made during the cur- rency of the half-year in which the license is to have effect or in the month immediately preceding such half- year, and every such license shall have effect during that half-year, and no longer.

(2.)

The fee to be paid for a half-yearly license for any vehicle shall. be an amount exceeding by two shillings and sixpence one-half the fee (including any additional fee prescribed by Part II. of the third schedule) that would be payable for an annual license.

(3.)

The owner of any such vehicle as aforesaid shall be entitled to the benefit of this section in respect of any and every species of license which it may be necessary to obtain for such vehicle.

(4.)

(5.)

The owner of any vehicle which has been licensed under any kind of license for any financial year, or the second half thereof, shall not be entitled (without having obtained such a license for the first half of the next suc- ceeding year) to obtain such a license for the second half unless he shall have deposited the number plates of the

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vehicle with the licensing authority on or before the fifteenth day of July, and if he obtains such a license for the first half of that year he shall be liable to pay to the proper authority the fee payable for such a license for the second half of such year, notwithstanding that Ile may not have obtained such license, unless he shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January in such half-year, have deposited the number plates of the vehicle with the licensing authority or have ceased to be the owner of the vehicle.

Amendment of

Section forty-two of the principal Act is hereby

amended by the insertion, after subsection (1), of a subsec-

tion, as follows:—

s. 42. 4.

(la) The Governor may by regulations made under this Act prohibit, either absolutely or subject to pre- scribed conditions, the picking up and/or setting down of passengers, for or from any omnibus, at any place on any such portion of a prescribed route as coincides with or runs along or beside the route of any tramway or railway or at any place within one hundred and fifty yards from the point where a prescribed route intersects a tramway or railway or ceases to coincide with or run along or beside the route of a tramway or railway.

Amendment of

The third schedule of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following words to the third para- graph of Part 2 after the word "payable":—"for each pas- senger the omnibus is licensed to carry."

third schedule. 5.

Citation of Traffic 6. The Traffic Act, 1919, and its amendments, including

Act, 1919, and

amendments. this Act, may be cited as the Traffic Act, 1919-1931.