Title: Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) AmendmentBill 2013
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: royal.arms.unofficial
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Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Bill 2013

Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Bill 2013
Part 1—Preliminary

Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Bill 2013
Preliminary—Part 1

Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Bill 2013
Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959

Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Bill 2013
Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959—Part 2

South Australia
Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Bill 2013
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Motor Vehicles Act 1959.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959
3	Insertion of section 98AAG
98AAG	Exemptions for Aboriginal persons in remote areas

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driver Licensing) Amendment Act 2013.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Motor Vehicles Act 1959
3—Insertion of section 98AAG
After section 98AAF insert:
98AAG—Exemptions for Aboriginal persons in remote areas
	(1)	Subject to this section, the Minister may, by instrument in writing or by notice in the Gazette—
	(a)	exempt a specified person, or a person of a specified class, from specified provisions of this Part subject to such conditions as the Minister thinks fit and specifies in the instrument or notice of exemption; or
	(b)	vary or revoke an exemption, or a condition of an exemption, under this section or impose a further condition.
	(2)	An exemption under this section may only be granted for the purpose of enabling an Aboriginal person who ordinarily resides in a remote area to obtain a licence under this Act.
	(3)	An exemption under this section expires when the person to whom the exemption applies is issued with an unconditional licence under this Act.
	(4)	In this section—
Aboriginal person means a person of Aboriginal descent who is accepted as a member by a group in the community who claim Aboriginal descent;
remote area means—
	(a)	the lands as defined in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981; or
	(b)	the lands as defined in the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984; or
	(c)	lands prescribed by regulation.

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