Traffic Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1969 (WA)

1969.] Traffic (No. 2). [No. 48.

TRAFFIC (No. 2).

No. 48 of 1969.

AN ACT to amend the Traffic Act, 1919-1968.

[Assented to 30th June, 1969.]

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:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Traffic Act and citation.

Amendment Act (No. 2), 1969.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Traffic Act, 1919-1968, is

approved for

reprint the

referred to as the principal Act.

31st August,

1966, and

further

amended by

Acts Nos. 57

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act and 87 of 1966, 56 of

may be cited as the Traffic Act, 1919-1969.

1961 and 35

and 57 of

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Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first

day of July, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine.

S. 4

amended. 3. Section four of the principal Act is amended

by deleting the interpretations, "base year sum" and

"road construction".

Ss. WI,

11AA, 11AB	4.	Sections eleven A, eleven AA, eleven AB and
and 1150

repealed.

eleven AC of the principal Act are repealed and the

following section is enacted in their stead-

Local

authorities	11A. (1) A local authority whose district
may require

the Minister	is wholly outside the metropolitan area may, by
to divest
them of	resolution, require that the Minister confer and
certain
powers and	impose on the Commissioner of Police all the
duties.	powers conferred, and the duties imposed, by this Act on the local authority, other than those relating to the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of roads; and the Minister may, if he thinks fit, by notice published in the Government Gazette, give effect to any such requirement, on and from a date specified in the notice.
(2) Where, pursuant to this section, the Commissioner of Police exercises the powers conferred, and performs the duties imposed, on a local authority, he shall, after making provision for the retention thereout of such amounts as the local authority might have retained under the provisions of section four- teen of this Act, pay to the Main Roads Trust Account, maintained under the Main Roads Act, 1930, all fees recived by him for the issue, renewal and transfer of motor vehicle licences, in respect of the district of the local authority. .
S. 13

amended. 5. Section thirteen of the principal Act is amended, as to subsection (3), by substituting for the words, "Central Road Trust Fund", the passage, "Main Roads Trust Account, maintained under the Main Roads Act, 1930".

1969.] Traffic (No. 2). [No. 48.

6. Section fourteen of the principal Act is I±SI regaled and

repealed and is re-enacted, as follows— re-enacted.

14. (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this Ificuttrities

section, every local authority shall, on or before tgl'afees

the fifteenth day of the month next following FAtztruTtr.ust

that in which it receives them, pay to the credit of the Main Roads Trust Account, maintained under the Main Roads Act, 1930, all fees received by the local authority for the issue, renewal and transfer of motor vehicle licenses.

(2) A local authority may, during each financial year, in the manner from time to time approved by the Minister administering the Main Roads Act, 1930, retain an amount in respect of the motor vehicles on its register, as at the thirty-first day of December in that year, being,

(a)	in the case of a local authority whose district, or part of whose district, is outside the metropolitan area, an amount of four dollars in respect of each motor vehicle, up to and includ- ing one thousand vehicles, and three dollars in respect of each motor vehicle in excess of that number; and
(b)	in the case of the Commissioner of Police, an amount of one dollar and fifty cents in respect of each motor vehicle.

(3) Every local authority shall from time to

time, as required by him, notify the Commis- sioner of Main Roads, appointed under the Main Roads Act, 1930, of the amount of any fees received by the local authority for the transfer of vehicle licenses.

(4) All fees taken pursuant to the regula-

tions, on the issue of a permit for the carrying on a vehicle of a load exceeding a prescribed load, shall be paid to the Main Roads Trust Account. .

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S. NB

repealed. 7. Section fourteen B of the principal Act is

repealed.

S. 25C

amended. 8. Section twenty-five C of the principal Act is

amended, as to subsection (2), by substituting for the words, "Central Road Trust Fund", at the end of the subsection, the passage, "Main Roads Trust Account, maintained under the Main Roads Act, 1930".