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Western Australia Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001 CONTENTS 1. Short title 1 2. Commencement 2 3. The Act amended 2 4. Sections 103A and 103B inserted 2 5. Section 111 amended 3 6. Section 111A inserted 4 page i 28 -- 2 Western Australia LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (As amended during consideration in detail) Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001 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 2001. page 1 Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001 s. 2 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 2000 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 393, and Act Nos. 39 and 51 of 2000.] 4. Sections 103A and 103B inserted 10 After section 103 the following sections are inserted in Part VI -- " 103A. Power to include areas in the scope of specified regulations 15 (1) The Minister may declare that a regulation specified in the declaration applies to a specified area of the State that is open to or used by the public. (2) A declaration has effect for the period specified in it unless it is sooner revoked. 20 103B. Power to grant exemptions from specified regulations (1) The regulations may provide for the Minister to declare, in writing in accordance with the regulations, that a specified requirement of the regulations does not 25 apply to a specified person or vehicle. (2) The regulations may provide for the Director General to grant exemptions from provisions of the regulations prescribing standards for vehicles. ". page 2 Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001 s. 5 5. Section 111 amended Section 111(2)(d) is deleted and the following paragraphs are inserted instead -- " 5 (d) prescribing standards for vehicles, including standards relating to -- (i) the design, construction, efficiency and performance of, and the equipment to be carried on, vehicles; 10 (ii) the attachment of operational or safety devices; (iii) mass and dimension limits of vehicles and their loads; (iv) roadworthiness; 15 (v) safety, emissions and noise; (vi) the coupling of trailers and motor vehicles; (vii) the identification of vehicles or components of vehicles; 20 (viii) loading and unloading and securing of loads; (ix) vehicles whose size, mass or load exceeds limits set by the regulations; (x) security of vehicles and the equipment 25 to be fitted to vehicles for the purposes of security; and (xi) the keeping and production of records; (daa) applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, any instrument or writing 30 relating to vehicle standards, as in force or existing at the time the regulations take effect; ". page 3 Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2001 s. 6 6. Section 111A inserted After section 111 the following section is inserted -- " 111A. Adoption of other laws, codes etc. 5 (1) Regulations made under section 111 may adopt, either wholly or in part or with modifications -- (a) a national standard determined under the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 of the Commonwealth; or 10 (b) any of the standards, rules, codes or 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 15 adopted as in force from time to time unless the regulations specify that a particular text is adopted. ".
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