Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999

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Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999

 

No. 8, 1999

 

 

 

 

Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999

 

No. 8, 1999

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

 

 

Contents

1  Short title......................................1

2  Commencement...................................1

3  Schedule(s).....................................2

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 3

 

Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999

No. 8, 1999

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

[Assented to 31 March 1999]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.


Schedule 1—Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

 

1  Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

Associate Administrator means an Associate Administrator of Vehicle Standards referred to in section 22.

2  Subsection 5(1) (at the end of the definition of vehicle standard)

Add:

 ; or (d) promote the saving of energy.

3  Paragraph 11(1)(a)

Omit “arrangements referred to in section 10”, substitute “this Act”.

4  Subparagraph 11(1)(b)(i)

Omit “those arrangements”, substitute “arrangements of the kind referred to in section 10”.

5  At the end of subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv)

Add “or”.

6  After subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv)

Insert:

 (v) that the person has failed to comply with a condition to which his or her authority is subject under subsection 10A(4);

7  Paragraph 12(d)

Omit “given; or”, substitute “given.”.

8  Paragraph 12(e)

Repeal the paragraph.

9  Subsection 17A(1)

Omit “section 39 of”.

10  Subsection 22(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

 (1) There are to be an Administrator of Vehicle Standards and such Associate Administrators of Vehicle Standards as are required.

11  At the end of section 22

Add:

 (3) An Associate Administrator:

 (a) is to be appointed by the Secretary to the Department; and

 (b) is to be a person holding an office in the Department.

12  Section 23

Omit “another person who holds or performs the duties of a Senior Executive Service office within the Department”, substitute “an Associate Administrator”.

13  Paragraph 23(e)

Omit “section 10; and”, substitute “section 10.”.

14  Paragraph 23(f)

Repeal the paragraph.

15  After paragraph 39(1)(aa)

Insert:

 (aaa) a decision of the Minister under section 10A; and

16  Paragraph 39(1)(b)

Omit “subsection 14(2)”, substitute “section 14A”.

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 3 December 1998

Senate on 8 March 1999]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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