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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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]
(234/98)