Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The regulations
may provide for schemes under which the Director General —
(a)
allocates number plates (in this section called optional number plates ) to
persons wishing to reserve the right to use those number plates instead of
number plates that would otherwise be issued under this Act;
(b)
supplies and, if necessary, replaces optional number plates;
(c)
permits the transfer from one person to another of the right to use optional
number plates;
(d)
gives directions as to which vehicle optional number plates are to be used on;
(e) is
given the power to cancel, with or without compensation, a person’s
right to use optional number plates if charges due and payable in respect of
that right remain unpaid for a period prescribed in the regulations.
(2) The rights may be
for a specified period or otherwise.
(3) A scheme may be
designed to be operated commercially but —
(a) the
sale of the rights allocated is to be —
(i)
by public auction or public tender; or
(ii)
if the Treasurer authorises the sale to be by private
treaty or any other means, by the means authorised;
and
(b) any
other charge under a scheme is to be prescribed in the regulations.
(4) The amount of a
charge that may be prescribed under subsection (3)(b) is not limited to
the amount needed to recover costs even though it is for a matter for which
only a fee could be prescribed if the number plates were not optional number
plates.
(5) The regulations
may deal with matters that it is necessary or convenient to deal with for the
purposes of, or in connection with, schemes relating to optional number
plates.
[Section 113 inserted by No. 6 of 2004
s. 5.]
[First and Second Schedule deleted by No. 28 of 2001 s. 22.]