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MOTOR VEHICLES (HISTORIC NUMBER PLATES) AMENDMENT BILL 2012

South Australia

Motor Vehicles (Historic Number Plates) Amendment Bill 2012

A BILL FOR

An Act to amend the Motor Vehicles Act 1959.


Contents

Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Commencement
3Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959
4Amendment of section 47A—Classes of number plates and agreements for allotment of numbers


The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Historic Number Plates) Amendment Act 2012.

2—Commencement

This Act will come into operation 3 months after the day on which it is made.

3—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959

4—Amendment of section 47A—Classes of number plates and agreements for allotment of numbers

Section 47A—after subsection (5) insert:

(5a) If—

(a) pursuant to an agreement under subsection (4)—

(i) a person has the right to be allotted a particular number in respect of a motor vehicle registered or to be registered in the person's name as an owner; and

(ii) the person has the right to attach a number plate or plates that bear that number to the vehicle; and

(b) that number is the original number allotted to the motor vehicle on the first registration of the vehicle following its manufacture; and

(c) the number plate that bears that number is a numeric number plate issued before 1967,

then, despite the terms of an agreement under subsection (4) requiring the rights referred to in paragraph (a) to be transferred by public auction or some other means, those rights may be transferred together with the transfer of the ownership of the motor vehicle to a beneficiary of the deceased estate of the registered owner, or to an immediate family member of the registered owner.

(5b) On a transfer of rights under subsection (5a)

(a) the agreement under subsection (4) between the Registrar and the registered owner who transferred the ownership of the motor vehicle will be taken to be terminated; and

(b) an agreement in the same terms and on the same conditions as the terminated agreement will be taken to have been entered into under subsection (4) between the Registrar and the person to whom ownership of the vehicle has been transferred.

(5c) In this section—

child includes an adopted child, a step-child or an ex-nuptial child;

close personal relationship means the relationship between 2 adult persons (whether or not related by family and irrespective of their gender) who live together as a couple on a genuine domestic basis, but does not include—

(a) the relationship between a legally married couple; or

(b) a relationship where 1 of the persons provides the other with domestic support or personal care (or both) for fee or reward, or on behalf of some other person or an organisation of whatever kind;

Note—

Two persons may live together as a couple on a genuine domestic basis whether or not a sexual relationship exists, or has ever existed, between them.

domestic partner—a person is the domestic partner of another if he or she lives with the other in a close personal relationship;

immediate family member of a person means—

(a) the person's spouse or domestic partner; or

(b) a child or grandchild, parent, grandparent or sibling of the person or of the spouse or domestic partner of the person;

numeric number plate means a number plate issued before 1967, that consists entirely of figures (except for the letters "SA" designating the State of issue).

 


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