Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations prescribing any matter that is required or permitted by this
Act to be prescribed, or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
(2) The regulations
may make it an offence to contravene a condition imposed by or under the
regulations, but this subsection does not limit the other consequences that
the regulations may attach to a contravention.
(3) Without limiting
subsection (1), regulations may —
(a)
impose penalties not exceeding a fine of 64 PU for a first offence, and not
exceeding a fine of 96 PU for any subsequent offence, under any regulation
made under this Act; and
(b)
prescribe matters for or in respect of which fees may be charged or charges
may be made under this Act and prescribing the amounts of such fees or
charges; and
(c)
require a statutory declaration to be made about a matter.
(4) For the purposes
of subsection (3)(b), a reference in the Interpretation Act 1984
section 45(1)(f) and (2) to a reduction is to be read as if it included a
reference to a deferral.
(5) Without limiting
the Interpretation Act 1984 section 45(2), the regulations may provide that a
reduction, waiver, refund or deferral of a charge for granting or varying any
driver’s licence or the issue of a learner’s permit applies
subject to conditions imposed by the CEO that are specified in the licence.
[Section 61 amended: No. 10 of 2015 s. 10.]