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ROAD TRAFFIC AMENDMENT BILL (NO.2) 2000

                           Western Australia


                      LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL



     Road Traffic Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2000


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1974.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.      Short title
        This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Amendment Act
        (No. 2) 2000.




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     2.       Commencement
              This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.

     3.       The Act amended
              The amendments in this Act are to the Road Traffic Act 1974*.
5             [* Reprinted as at 17 September 1999.
                 For subsequent amendments see 1999 Index to Legislation of
                 Western Australia, Table 1, p. 219.]

     4.       Section 5 amended
              Section 5 is amended in the definition of "road" by deleting
10            "thereon;" and inserting instead --
              "
                        on the highway, road or street, and, in the
                        regulations, includes any other area that the
                        Minister has ordered under section 103A to be an
15                      area to which the regulations apply;
                                                                                 ".

     5.       Sections 103A and 103B inserted
              After section 103 the following sections are inserted in
              Part VI --
20   "
            103A.   Power to include areas in the scope of specified
                    regulations
              (1)   The Minister may order, by notice in the Gazette, that a
                    specified area of the State that is open to or used by the
25                  public is an area to which specified regulations apply.
              (2)   Such an order has effect until it is revoked or for the
                    period specified in the order.



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          103B.       Power to grant exemptions from specified
                      regulations
                      The regulations may provide for the Minister to
                      declare, by notice in writing in accordance with the
5                     regulations, that a specified requirement of the
                      regulations does not apply to a specified person or
                      vehicle.
                                                                                 ".

     6.     Section 111 amended
10          Section 111(2)(d) is deleted and the following paragraphs are
            inserted instead --
                  "
                       (d)    prescribing standards for vehicles, including
                              standards relating to --
15                               (i) the design, construction, efficiency and
                                     performance of, and the equipment to be
                                     carried on, vehicles;
                                (ii) the attachment of operational or safety
                                     devices;
20                             (iii) mass and dimension limits of vehicles
                                     and their loads;
                               (iv) roadworthiness;
                                (v) safety, emissions and noise;
                               (vi) the coupling of trailers and motor
25                                   vehicles;
                              (vii) the identification of vehicles or
                                     components of vehicles;
                             (viii) loading and unloading and securing of
                                     loads;
30                             (ix) vehicles whose size, mass or load
                                     exceeds limits set by the regulations;


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                             (x)    security of vehicles and the equipment
                                    to be fitted to vehicles for the purposes
                                    of security; and
                             (xi) the keeping and production of records;
5                   (daa)   applying, adopting or incorporating, with or
                            without modification, any instrument or writing
                            relating to vehicle standards, as in force or
                            existing at the time the regulations take effect;
                                                                                ".

10   7.       Section 111A inserted
              After section 111 the following section is inserted --
     "
            111A.   Adoption of other laws, codes etc.
              (1)   Regulations made under section 111 may adopt, either
15                  wholly or in part or with modifications --
                     (a) a national standard determined under the Motor
                           Vehicle Standards Act 1989 of the
                           Commonwealth; or
                     (b) any of the standards, rules, codes or
20                         specifications of the body known as Standards
                           Australia or a similar specified body.
              (2)   If any subsidiary legislation, standard, rule, code or
                    specification is adopted under subsection (1), it is
                    adopted as in force from time to time unless the
25                  regulations specify that a particular text is adopted.
                                                                                ".




 


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