Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS INSTRUCTORS ACT 1963 - SECT 14

14 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and, in particular regulations may be made for or with respect to — 

            (aa)         what is to be authorised by a licence or permit held by a person who, before an amendment to the regulations held a licence or permit that operated by reference to a vehicle classification that no longer exists, and, where anything that was formerly authorised by the licence or permit ceases to be authorised, making provision to facilitate the obtaining by the person of a licence or permit that authorises that thing;

            (a)         the renewal of licences and permits and the return of expired licences and permits;

            (b)         the display on or in any motor vehicle used by a driving instructor for the purpose of giving instruction in the driving of the motor vehicle, of the licence or permit held by the driving instructor and of any means of identifying him;

            (c)         the production to prescribed persons of licences and permits;

            (d)         regulating the method and manner in which a driving instructor may make known the place where and the fact that he is a driving instructor or is willing to give instruction in the driving of motor vehicles;

            (e)         the use of and the carriage of persons in any motor vehicles used for the purpose of giving instruction in the driving of motor vehicles;

            (f)         the provisions and use of special equipment on any motor vehicle used by a driving instructor upon any road for the purpose of giving instruction in the driving of that vehicle;

            (g)         the production to the Director General, by an applicant for a licence or a permit or by the holder of a licence or permit of — 

                  (i)         evidence of the medical fitness of the applicant or holder to be the holder of a licence or permit;

                  (ii)         evidence of the fitness and qualifications of the applicant or holder to act as a driving instructor;

                  (iii)         any prescribed means of identifying the applicant or holder;

            (h)         notification to the Director General and such other persons as may be prescribed by the regulations of any injuries sustained by any person or of any damage occasioned to any property during the course of driving instruction;

                  (i)         the granting of exemption or conditional exemption from compliance with all or any of the provisions of this Act;

            (j)         the granting of duplicate licences or permits and matters connected with those licences or permits; and

            (k)         imposing a penalty not exceeding $500, for a breach of any regulation.

        (2)         A regulation may be of general or of limited application according to time, place or circumstances, and may be general or restricted to any specified class of subject matter.

        [Section 14 amended by No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 12 of 1973 s. 38; No. 58 of 1974 s. 25; No. 106 of 1981 s. 5; No. 49 of 1987 s. 4; No. 76 of 1996 s. 35; No. 39 of 2000 s. 62.]