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South Australia
Motor Vehicles (Vehicle Immobilisers) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Motor Vehicles Act 1959.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles
Act 1959
4 Insertion of section
23B
23B Certain vehicles must not be registered unless fitted
with immobiliser
5 Amendment of section 58—Transfer of
registration
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Vehicle Immobilisers)
Amendment Act 2008.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the date of
assent.
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 23A insert:
23B—Certain vehicles must not be registered unless
fitted with immobiliser
(1) If—
(a) an application is made for registration of a motor vehicle that has
previously been registered under this Act or the law of any other State or
Territory of the Commonwealth; and
(b) the application indicates that the person last recorded as the owner
of the vehicle in the register of motor vehicles under this Act or the law of
any other State or Territory of the Commonwealth (as the case may require) is no
longer the owner of the vehicle,
the Registrar must not register the motor vehicle unless satisfied, by such
evidence as he or she may require, that—
(c) the vehicle is fitted with an immobiliser of a kind prescribed by
regulation; and
(d) the immobiliser is in good working order.
(2) This section does not apply—
(a) to a heavy vehicle or a motor vehicle that has an unloaded mass of
3 tonnes or more; or
(b) to a motor vehicle that was built 25 years or more before the
date on which the application for registration is made; or
(c) to registration of a motor vehicle in accordance with an order of a
court; or
(d) in circumstances prescribed by regulation.
5—Amendment of
section 58—Transfer of registration
Section 58—after subsection (4) insert:
(5) If a motor vehicle is one to which section 23B applies, the
Registrar must refuse to transfer the registration of the motor vehicle unless
he or she is satisfied, by such evidence as he or she may require,
that—
(a) the vehicle is fitted with an immobiliser of a kind prescribed by
regulation for the purposes of section 23B; and
(b) the immobiliser is in good working order.