Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999
No. 8, 1999
Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999
No. 8, 1999
Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999
No. 8, 1999
An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989
Contents
1 Short title......................................1
2 Commencement...................................1
3 Schedule(s).....................................2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 3
Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999
No. 8, 1999
An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989
[Assented to 31 March 1999]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989
1 Subsection 5(1)
Insert:
Associate Administrator means an Associate Administrator of Vehicle Standards referred to in section 22.
2 Subsection 5(1) (at the end of the definition of vehicle standard)
Add:
; or (d) promote the saving of energy.
3 Paragraph 11(1)(a)
Omit “arrangements referred to in section 10”, substitute “this Act”.
4 Subparagraph 11(1)(b)(i)
Omit “those arrangements”, substitute “arrangements of the kind referred to in section 10”.
5 At the end of subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv)
Add “or”.
6 After subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv)
Insert:
(v) that the person has failed to comply with a condition to which his or her authority is subject under subsection 10A(4);
7 Paragraph 12(d)
Omit “given; or”, substitute “given.”.
8 Paragraph 12(e)
Repeal the paragraph.
9 Subsection 17A(1)
Omit “section 39 of”.
10 Subsection 22(1)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(1) There are to be an Administrator of Vehicle Standards and such Associate Administrators of Vehicle Standards as are required.
11 At the end of section 22
Add:
(3) An Associate Administrator:
(a) is to be appointed by the Secretary to the Department; and
(b) is to be a person holding an office in the Department.
12 Section 23
Omit “another person who holds or performs the duties of a Senior Executive Service office within the Department”, substitute “an Associate Administrator”.
13 Paragraph 23(e)
Omit “section 10; and”, substitute “section 10.”.
14 Paragraph 23(f)
Repeal the paragraph.
15 After paragraph 39(1)(aa)
Insert:
(aaa) a decision of the Minister under section 10A; and
16 Paragraph 39(1)(b)
Omit “subsection 14(2)”, substitute “section 14A”.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 3 December 1998
Senate on 8 March 1999]
(234/98)
