Western Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

ROAD TRAFFIC (VEHICLE STANDARDS) REGULATIONS 1977 - REG 106

106 .         Offences

        (1)         A person shall not stand, use or drive a vehicle on a road, or permit or suffer a vehicle to be stood, driven or used on a road unless — 

            (a)         its construction, equipment and loading (if any) and every appliance fitted to the vehicle, whether obligatory or optional conforms to these regulations;

            (b)         every part of, or appliance fitted to, the vehicle, whether or not prescribed by these regulations, is serviceable;

            (c)         the vehicle, or its load or any attachment is in such a condition as to be unlikely to occasion danger or unreasonable annoyance to any person or damage to any property; and

            (d)         the mass supported by the vehicle or any part thereof conforms to these regulations.

        (1a)         Where a person stands, drives or uses a vehicle on a road and —

            (a)         the loading of the vehicle does not conform to these regulations; or

            (b)         the mass supported by the vehicle or any part thereof does not conform to these regulations,

                the owner of that vehicle shall be deemed to have also contravened subregulation (1).

        (2)         All motor vehicles shall, where required by these regulations, comply with or conform to Australian Design Rules, unless either specifically or generally exempted by the Director General.

        (3)         Where, pursuant to these regulations, every vehicle or every vehicle of a specified class is required at the time of first registration to comply with any provision of these regulations, that requirement for compliance shall be taken to continue in force for so long as the vehicle is used.

        (4)         Where, pursuant to these regulations, every vehicle or every vehicle of a specified class is required to have equipment or fittings of a specified kind complying with one of a number of Australian Design Rules determined by reference to the date of manufacture of the vehicle, a vehicle which has equipment or fittings of that kind complying with an Australian Design Rule applicable to vehicles manufactured after the date of manufacture of that vehicle shall be deemed to comply with the provisions of these regulations in relation to that equipment or those fittings.

        [Regulation 106 amended in Gazette 4 Jan 1980 p. 3; 2 Feb 1982 p. 406; 25 May 1984 p. 1385; 8 Jun 1990 p. 2684; 31 Jan 1997 p. 685.]