Victorian Numbered Acts

ROAD SAFETY (FURTHER AMENDMENT) ACT 2005 (NO 24 OF 2005) - SECT 12

After section 95(3B) of the Road Safety Act 1986 insert —

    '(3C)     The regulations may provide for a Commonwealth interpretation enactment to apply to the interpretation of any of the provisions of the regulations—

        (a)     either wholly or to the extent specified by the regulations; and

        (b)     to so apply without modifications or with the modifications specified by the regulations.

    (3D)     In sub-section (3C) "Commonwealth interpretation enactment" means—

        (a)     the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 of the Commonwealth; or

        (b)     the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 of the Commonwealth; or

        (c)     the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 of the Commonwealth as applied by the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 of the Commonwealth to legislative instruments within the meaning of that Act.

    (3E)     This section does not prevent the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 from applying to the regulations to the extent that it can do so consistently with the application to those regulations of any Commonwealth interpretation enactment within the meaning of sub-section (3C).'.