Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2022 (NO 2) (NO. 5 OF 2022) - SECT 39

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"identification plate" means a plate approved to be placed on a vehicle, or taken to have been placed on a vehicle, under the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

(Cwlth) (repealed), section 10A.

Note 1     Identification plates were approved for vehicles that complied with the national standards. Identification plates were also approved for vehicles that failed to comply, but either the noncompliance was minor and inconsequential, or the vehicle complied to an extent that made it suitable for supply to the market (see Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

(Cwlth) (repealed), s 10A).

Note 2     Despite the repeal of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

(Cwlth) on 1 July 2021—

        (a)     approvals in force immediately before the repeal continue in force until 1 July 2022; and

        (b)     new approvals may be given between 1 July 2021 to 1 July 2022, and remain in force until 1 July 2022.

(See Road Vehicle Standards (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2018

(Cwlth), sch 3, s 4 and s 6.)

Note 3     Identification plates include compliance plates placed, or taken to be placed, on vehicles as early as 1972 (see Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

(Cwlth) (repealed), s 42 (d)).

Part 9     Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2000