Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 79E

79E .         Liability for expenses of police impounding

                If a vehicle is impounded under this Subdivision and a person is convicted of the offence for which the vehicle was impounded, that person is liable to pay to the Commissioner an amount specified by the Commissioner as being equivalent to all expenses reasonably incurred by the Commissioner in impounding the vehicle and any substitute vehicle impounded under section 79BCB and any alternative vehicle impounded under section 79BCE less —

            (a)         any amount received by the Commissioner under section 80IB(1); and

            (b)         any amount received by the Commissioner under section 80JA(8)(b),

                in relation to impounding the vehicle or vehicles.

        [Section 79E inserted by No. 23 of 2009 s. 16; amended by No. 20 of 2010 s. 11.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 10 of 2004 s. 13.]

[ 80.         Deleted by No. 23 of 2009 s. 17.]