Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00520:schedule:1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00520
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 3776–6957

Schedule 1—Proposed model legislation for regulation 3
(regulation 3)

Model Amendment Regulations: Heavy Vehicles Registration—Package No. 1)

Contents

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1. Name
2. Purpose
3. Approval
4. Release of information in registration authority's register
Model Amendments Regulations: Heavy Vehicles Registration—Package No. 1

The following provisions are intended to provide the basis for nationally consistent transport laws on the topics with which they deal.  They do not, of themselves, have any legal effect.

1.  Name
  These are the Model Amendments Regulations: Heavy Vehicles Registration—Package No. 1.

2.  Purpose
  The purpose of these Amendments is to amend Heavy Vehicles Registration Regulations to insert a note enabling jurisdictions to refer to their own privacy legislation in regulating the release of information held in certain registers.

3.  Approval
  These Amendments were approved by the Australian Transport Council on 7 November 2008.

4.  Release of information in registration authority's register
  At the end of regulation 17(7) of the Road Transport Reform (Heavy Vehicles Registration) Regulations insert –
  "[Local variations – jurisdictions with their own privacy legislation may prefer to refer to the relevant equivalent provisions of that legislation rather than to the Commonwealth Act.]".

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