Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999 No. 8, 1999 Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999 No. 8, 1999 An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 Contents 1 Short title......................................1 2 Commencement...................................1 3 Schedule(s).....................................2 Schedule 1—Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 3 Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999 No. 8, 1999 An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 [Assented to 31 March 1999] The Parliament of Australia enacts: 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Standards Amendment Act 1999. 2 Commencement This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. 3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms. Schedule 1—Amendment of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 1 Subsection 5(1) Insert: Associate Administrator means an Associate Administrator of Vehicle Standards referred to in section 22. 2 Subsection 5(1) (at the end of the definition of vehicle standard) Add: ; or (d) promote the saving of energy. 3 Paragraph 11(1)(a) Omit "arrangements referred to in section 10", substitute "this Act". 4 Subparagraph 11(1)(b)(i) Omit "those arrangements", substitute "arrangements of the kind referred to in section 10". 5 At the end of subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv) Add "or". 6 After subparagraph 11(1)(b)(iv) Insert: (v) that the person has failed to comply with a condition to which his or her authority is subject under subsection 10A(4); 7 Paragraph 12(d) Omit "given; or", substitute "given.". 8 Paragraph 12(e) Repeal the paragraph. 9 Subsection 17A(1) Omit "section 39 of". 10 Subsection 22(1) Repeal the subsection, substitute: (1) There are to be an Administrator of Vehicle Standards and such Associate Administrators of Vehicle Standards as are required. 11 At the end of section 22 Add: (3) An Associate Administrator: (a) is to be appointed by the Secretary to the Department; and (b) is to be a person holding an office in the Department. 12 Section 23 Omit "another person who holds or performs the duties of a Senior Executive Service office within the Department", substitute "an Associate Administrator". 13 Paragraph 23(e) Omit "section 10; and", substitute "section 10.". 14 Paragraph 23(f) Repeal the paragraph. 15 After paragraph 39(1)(aa) Insert: (aaa) a decision of the Minister under section 10A; and 16 Paragraph 39(1)(b) Omit "subsection 14(2)", substitute "section 14A". [Minister's second reading speech made in— House of Representatives on 3 December 1998 Senate on 8 March 1999] (234/98)