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Motor Vehicles Act 1949
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138 Regulations
(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be
prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed,
for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular
prescribing matters providing for and in relation to:
(a) the demerit points scheme set out in Part 3;
(g) the form, construction and equipment of commercial
passenger vehicles (within the meaning of the Commercial
Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991);
(o) the medical condition and physical and character fitness of an
applicant for a driver's licence for a commercial passenger
vehicle (within the meaning of the Commercial Passenger
(Road) Transport Act 1991);
(p) the qualifications of drivers of motor vehicles and riders of
motor cycles;
(s) the width and type of tyres of vehicles;
(t) the provision of labels relating to the registration of motor
vehicles and trailers and to the issue of traders' plates and the
affixing and maintaining of those labels on motor vehicles and
trailers;
(u) the grant of international certificates for vehicles or
international driving permits in accordance with any
convention to which the Commonwealth is a party;
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(v) visiting vehicles;
(w) the exemption, subject to such conditions (if any) as are
specified, from the operation of all or any of the provisions of
this Act of:
(i) vehicles or specified classes of vehicles which are
owned by persons ordinarily resident outside the
Territory and which are temporarily in the Territory;
(ii) vehicles of any other specified class;
(iii) persons in respect of a specified class or specified
classes of vehicles (including vehicles or specified
classes of vehicles which are owned by persons
ordinarily resident outside the Territory and which are
temporarily in the Territory);
(iv) specified areas in the Territory;
(y) the circumstances under which and the conditions (which may
include the payment of a prescribed fee) subject to which the
records kept and documents filed in the Motor Registry for the
purposes of this Act may be inspected or the information
contained in such records or documents may be made
available, or certificates of the Registrar or a prescribed officer
may be given;
(ac) permitting persons in the employment of the Crown to drive
any motor vehicle belonging to the Crown and providing that
such persons shall be deemed to be licensed for the purposes
of this Act;
(ad) the registration and proof of ownership of vehicles belonging
to the Crown;
(ae) the imposition of maximum penalties of 15 penalty units in
respect of an individual or 85 penalty units in respect of a
corporation for breaches of the regulations;
(af) the fees to be paid for and in relation to the registration,
renewal of registration or transfer of registration of vehicles,
the grant, renewal, transfer or replacement of licences, labels
or identification plates, the issue, transfer or replacement of
number plates and the inspection of vehicles; and