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Bill
Road Traffic Amendment Bill 2008
Bill No.
272
Synopsis
The purpose of this Bill is to prepare for the introduction of the Repeat Drink Driving Strategy. This is intended to provide a further strong deterrent to unauthorised driving. This is considered necessary so that affected drink driving offenders will not consider unauthorised driving as an alternative to obtaining the proposed conditional driving authorisatioin. In summary the amendments will: * Increase the period of time a Police Officer may impound a vehicle used in the commission of an "impounding offence (driving)" from 48 hours to 7 days for a first offence and 28 days for a second and subsequent offence; * Extend the definition of "road rage circumstances" to include places other than a road such as car parks and private property; and * Amend vehicle confiscation provisions as they relate to both hoon and road rage offences so that where an application is made by Police to have a vehicle confiscated, a court may order the impounding of the vehicle for a period of up to six months as an alternative to confiscation. * Target those drivers who speed excessively by increasing the court imposed fines for recless driving.
Status
Assented to
Royal Assent given 13 Jun 2008 as Act No. 24 of 2008. Different sections of this Act come into operation on Royal Assent and Proclamation. For details refer to Commencement Clause of the Bill (see also
Assent and Commencement information for Acts
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Bill History
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Legislative Assembly
Date
Introduced
10 Apr 2008
First Reading
10 Apr 2008
Second Reading
10 Apr 2008
Second Reading Agreed
07 May 2008
Consideration in Detail
07 May 2008
Third Reading
07 May 2008
Legislative Council
Date
Introduced
08 May 2008
First Reading
08 May 2008
Second Reading
08 May 2008
Second Reading Agreed
03 Jun 2008
Committee of the whole
03 Jun 2008
Third Reading
04 Jun 2008
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