Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts After section 4
insert:
5A. Regulations for alcohol interlock scheme
(1) In this
section —
alcohol interlock means a device which, when
installed in a motor vehicle, prevents the vehicle from being operated unless
a breath sample analysed by the device contains either no measurable
concentration of alcohol or not more than a particular concentration of
alcohol;
alcohol offence means an offence under the
Road Traffic Act 1974 Part V, an element of which is —
(a)
being under the influence of alcohol; or
(b)
having a blood alcohol content of or above a stated level; or
(c)
failing to provide a sample of blood, breath or urine or to allow such a
sample to be taken.
(2) The regulations
may provide for an alcohol interlock scheme under which —
(a) a
driver’s licence granted to or held by a person who has been convicted
of a prescribed alcohol offence is to be subject to a condition that it
authorises driving only a vehicle in which an alcohol interlock is installed;
and
(b) the
requirement referred to in paragraph (a) ceases to apply if the person
satisfies prescribed conditions.
(3) The particular
purposes for which this section provides that regulations may be made do not
prevent anything in section 61 from applying to the making of regulations
for the purposes of this section.
(4) Regulations made
for the purposes of this section may, in relation to persons who have been
convicted of prescribed alcohol offences, make any provision of a kind
referred to in section 4.