Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) Section 37(2) is
amended as follows:
(a) by
deleting “the owner of” in the first place where it occurs and
inserting instead —
“ a responsible person for ”;
(b) by
deleting “, but where the identity of the driver or person in charge of
a vehicle in respect of which an offence is alleged to have been committed is
not known and cannot immediately be ascertained, an infringement notice may be
addressed to the owner of the vehicle, without naming him or stating his
address, and be served by attaching it to the vehicle or leaving it in or on
the vehicle”.
(2) Section 37(3) is
amended as follows:
(a) by
deleting “the owner of” in the first place where it occurs and
inserting instead —
“ a responsible person for ”;
(b) by
deleting “owner of a vehicle” in the second place where it occurs
and inserting instead —
“ responsible person ”;
(c) in
paragraph (b) by deleting “owner of the vehicle” and
inserting instead —
“ responsible person ”;
(d) by
deleting “the owner is” and inserting instead —
“ the responsible person is ”.
(3) After
section 37(5) the following subsection is inserted —
“
(5a) In subsection (5) —
"alleged offender", in relation to an infringement
notice addressed to and served on a responsible person under
subsection (3), means the responsible person.
”.
(4) Section 37(8) is
amended by deleting “the owner, driver or” and inserting
instead —
“ an owner of, a responsible person for, a driver of, or a
”.