Australian Capital Territory
Road Transport (General) (Police Motorcycle Rider) Exemption Revocation 2013
Disallowable instrument DI 2013–50
made under the  
Road Transport (General) Act 1999, section 13 (Power to exclude vehicles, persons or animals from road transport legislation)
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This instrument is made under section 13 of the Road Transport (General) Act 1999 (the Act) that allows the Minister to exclude vehicles, persons or animals from the operation of the road transport legislation, or a provision of that legislation, by disallowable instrument. Under section 13 (1) of the Act, an exclusion operates in the circumstances and/or places declared in the instrument.

The purpose of the instrument is to revoke DI 2013—31, which exempts members of the Australian Federal Police who are undertaking police motorcycle rider training and assessment from the novice rider licensing requirements that would otherwise apply to them.  The substance of these provisions is now located in part 6 of the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2000.

Clause 1 provides for the name of this instrument.

Clause 2 provides that the instrument commences on the commencement of section 3 of the Road Transport (Police Driver and Rider Exemptions) Amendment Regulation 2013 (No 1).

Clause 3 revokes the exemption instrument.  The note explains that the subject matter of the revoked instrument is now located in the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2000, as amended by the Road Transport (Police Driver and Rider Exemptions) Amendment Regulation 2013 (No 1).