South Australia

Motor Vehicles (Duty to Carry Licence) Amendment Bill 2006

A Bill For

An Act to amend the Motor Vehicles Act 1959.

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959

4 Amendment of section 96—Duty to carry and produce licence or permit

5 Amendment of section 97A—Visiting motorists

6 Repeal of section 98AAA

7 Repeal of section 98AAB

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Duty to Carry Licence) Amendment Act 2006.

2—Commencement

This Act will come into operation 3 months after the date of assent.

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 96—Duty to carry and produce licence or permit

(1) Section 96(1) and (2)—delete subsections (1) and (2) and substitute:

(1) The driver of a motor vehicle must carry his or her licence or learner's permit at all times while driving the motor vehicle on a road and must produce the licence or permit immediately if requested to do so by a member of the police force.

Maximum penalty:

(a) if the motor vehicle has a GVM greater than 8 tonnes—$750;

(b) in any other case—$250.

(2) Section 96(4)—after the definition of driver insert:

licence includes any document that is, in accordance with section 97A(4), taken to be a licence under this Act for the purposes of section 74;

5—Amendment of section 97A—Visiting motorists

Section 97A(3)—delete subsection (3)

6—Repeal of section 98AAA

Section 98AAA—delete the section

7—Repeal of section 98AAB

Section 98AAB—delete the section