Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRERS ACT 2003 - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used in this Act

        (1)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        approved , in relation to a form, means approved by the Commissioner for the purposes of the provision in which the term appears;

        authorised officer means an officer designated as such under section 8;

        business licence means a business licence granted under section 16, 18 or 20;

        certificate means —

            (a)         a repairer’s certificate; or

            (b)         a provisional repairer’s certificate;

        Commissioner has the meaning given in the Fair Trading Act 2010 section 6;

        Department means the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act;

        Director General means the chief executive officer of the Department;

        licensee means the holder of a business licence;

        motor vehicle means a vehicle that is propelled wholly or partly by —

            (a)         any volatile spirit, steam, gas, oil or electricity; or

            (b)         any other means apart from human or animal power,

        and includes a trailer, but does not include —

            (c)         a vehicle that is constructed or adapted —

                  (i)         for use on a railway or tramway;

                  (ii)         principally for use in primary production; or

                  (iii)         otherwise for use in a manner that does not involve the carriage of persons or goods over public roads;

                or

            (d)         anything that is excluded from this definition by the regulations;

        provisional repairer’s certificate means a provisional repairer’s certificate granted under section 44;

        regulations means regulations made under section 114;

        repair work means any kind of work that is done on or to motor vehicles and that under section 5(1) is prescribed by the regulations to be repair work but does not include any kind of such work that is prescribed by the regulations not to be repair work;

        repairer’s certificate means a repairer’s certificate granted under section 42.

        (2)         References in this Act to repairing or repair work in relation to motor vehicles includes the repairing of any part of, or accessory to, a motor vehicle that has been removed from the vehicle for repair.

        (3)         If a business licence is granted to 2 or more persons under section 18, references in this Act to the licensee are to those persons jointly, unless a contrary intention appears.

        [(4)         deleted . ]

        [Section 3 amended by No. 28 of 2006 s. 111; No. 58 of 2010 s. 53 and 79.]