[Index] [Search] [Download] [Help]
This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Motor Vehicles (Disqualification) Amendment
Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Motor
Vehicles Act 1959.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles
Act 1959
4Insertion of
section 94
94Administrative errors and notices of
disqualification
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1Application of section 94
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Disqualification) Amendment
Act 2012.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
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 93 insert:
94—Administrative errors and notices of
disqualification
(1) If, as a result of
an administrative error, a notice of disqualification is not given to a person
by the Registrar within 12 months after the person became liable to be
given that notice of disqualification under this Act, the Registrar must not
give the notice of disqualification to the person (despite any other provision
of this Act).
(2) For the purposes of
subsection (1) (and
despite section 139BD), the Registrar will be taken to have given a notice
of disqualification to a person if the Registrar has sent such a notice to the
person by post, even if the person has failed to comply with a requirement made
under section 139BD(3) within the period specified in the notice.
(3) In this section—
notice of disqualification has the same meaning as in
section 139BD.
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
Section 94 of the Motor
Vehicles Act 1959, as enacted by this Act, applies in relation to a
notice of disqualification that would (but for the provisions of
section 94(1)) be given by the Registrar after the commencement of this
Act.