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TASMANIA
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VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC AMENDMENT
(WRITTEN-OFF VEHICLES) BILL 2013
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Principal Act
4. Section 3A amended (Repairable and statutory write-offs)
5. Repeal of Act
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VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC AMENDMENT
(WRITTEN-OFF VEHICLES) BILL 2013
(Brought in by the Minister for Infrastructure, the Honourable
David James O'Byrne)
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Vehicle and Traffic
Amendment (Written-off Vehicles) Act 2013.
2. Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
3. Principal Act
In this Act, the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999* is
referred to as the Principal Act.
*No. 70 of 1999
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4. Section 3A amended (Repairable and statutory
write-offs)
Section 3A of the Principal Act is amended as
follows:
(a) by omitting the definition of statutory
write-off from subsection (1) and
substituting the following definitions:
statutory write-off means a vehicle
that -
(a) has been assessed by a
prescribed person in
Tasmania, another State
or a Territory as a total
loss; and
(b) has been assessed by a
prescribed person in
Tasmania, another State
or a Territory as only
suitable for dismantling
and processing as scrap;
and
(c) has been assessed and
classified, or deemed, to
be a statutory write-off in
accordance with the
Technical Guide by a
prescribed person in
Tasmania, another State
or a Territory;
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Technical Guide means the Damage
Assessment Criteria for the
Classification of Statutory Write-
Offs approved by Austroads Ltd
(ABN 16 245 787 323) on
25 May 2011, as amended or
substituted from time to time.
(b) by omitting from subsection (2) "or a
statutory write-off";
(c) by inserting the following subsection
after subsection (2):
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is
declared that if a damaged
vehicle has been assessed as a
repairable write-off before the
commencement of the Vehicle
and Traffic Amendment (Written-
off Vehicles) Act 2013 -
(a) that assessment continues
to have effect after that
commencement; and
(b) that vehicle, as so
damaged, may not be
reassessed as a statutory
write-off after that
commencement.
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5. Repeal of Act
This Act is repealed on the three hundred and
sixty fifth day from the day on which it
commences.
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