Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where a person to
whom a certificate of registration of a vehicle has been granted ceases to be
the owner of the vehicle, the person shall —
(a)
within 7 days of ceasing to be the owner give notice in writing to the
Director General of the name and address of the new owner of the vehicle; and
(b) if
the registration had, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, been granted or
renewed without payment of a fee or on payment of a reduced registration fee
which was less than the fee that would otherwise have been payable in relation
to that vehicle had the particular circumstances not applied, and unless the
provisions of section 30(1) have been complied with, within 7 days after
ceasing to be the owner, return the certificate of registration and the number
plate issued in respect of that vehicle to the Director General.
(2) A person who
becomes the owner of a vehicle in respect of which a certificate of
registration has been granted shall, within 14 days after becoming the owner,
give notice in writing to the Director General of that fact.
(3) As soon as
practicable after receiving notice under subsection (1)(a) or (2), or
otherwise, of a change in the ownership of a vehicle in respect of which a
certificate of registration has been granted, if the Director General is
satisfied that the registration may be transferred under section 28A(2) and no
application has been made under section 28A(1), the Director General may issue
to the new owner a notice requiring that —
(a) an
application for the transfer of the registration to the new owner be made
under section 28A; or
(b) the
number plates issued in respect of the vehicle be delivered up to the Director
General.
(4) In subsection (3)
—
new owner , in relation to a vehicle, means a
person who, according to the notice received by the Director General, has
become a new owner of the vehicle and, if there is more than one such person,
each or any of them.
(5) A person to whom a
notice is issued under subsection (3)(b) commits an offence if an application
for the transfer of the registration for the vehicle is not made within 28
days after the notice is issued, or any longer period that the Director
General allows, unless it can be shown that —
(a) the
person did not agree to becoming the owner of the vehicle and has notified the
Director General in writing accordingly; or
(b)
another person has been nominated for the purposes of section 3(2); or
(c)
there is more than one owner of the vehicle and there is good reason why a
person was not nominated under section 3(2); or
(d)
there was some other good reason why the application for the transfer of the
registration was not made.
(6) The other
subsections of this section do not apply if a person to whom a certificate of
registration in respect of a vehicle has been issued dies, and in that case
the Director General shall on an application under section 28A, if any, by the
executor or administrator of the estate of that person endorse on the
certificate the transfer of the registration to that executor or
administrator.
[Section 29A inserted: No. 39 of 2000 s. 54.]