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South Australia
Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment
Bill 2013
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Motor
Vehicles Act 1959.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles
Act 1959
3Insertion of section
98AAG
98AAGExemptions for
Aboriginal persons in remote areas
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment
Act 2013.
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
After section 98AAF insert:
98AAG—Exemptions for Aboriginal persons in remote
areas
(1) Subject to this section, the Minister may, by instrument in writing or
by notice in the Gazette—
(a) exempt a specified person, or a person of a specified class, from
specified provisions of this Part subject to such conditions as the Minister
thinks fit and specifies in the instrument or notice of exemption; or
(b) vary or revoke an exemption, or a condition of an exemption, under
this section or impose a further condition.
(2) An exemption under this section may only be granted for the purpose of
enabling an Aboriginal person who ordinarily resides in a remote area to obtain
a licence under this Act.
(3) An exemption under this section expires when the person to whom the
exemption applies is issued with an unconditional licence under this
Act.
(4) In this section—
Aboriginal person means a person of Aboriginal descent who is
accepted as a member by a group in the community who claim Aboriginal
descent;
remote area means—
(a) the lands as defined in the Anangu
Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981; or
(b) the lands as defined in the Maralinga
Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984; or
(c) lands prescribed by regulation.