Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999

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2 Interpretation
  • (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    The Act means the Land Transport Act 1998

    Land Transport Rules or rules means the ordinary rules made under Part 11 of the Act or required to be treated as having been made under that Act

    provision means—

    • (a) a provision of the Land Transport Rules; or

    • (b) a section of the Act.

    (2) Every reference in these regulations to any provision includes every provision for the time being in force amending or made in substitution for that provision.

    (3) The brief descriptions given in the second column of Schedule 1, and the first column of Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B, are intended only to be an indication of the content of the provisions they describe, and are not intended to be used in the interpretation of the provisions.

    (4) Abbreviations or terms used in the second column of Schedule 1, and the first column of Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B, have the meanings given to those abbreviations or terms in the Land Transport Rules.

    Regulation 2(1) provision: substituted, on 1 October 2007, by regulation 4 of the Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007 (SR 2007/265).

    Subclause (3) was amended, as from 27 February 2005, by regulation 3(1) Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Amendment Regulations 2004 (SR 2004/448) by inserting the words , and the first column of Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B, after the expression Schedule 1.

    Subclause (4) was amended, as from 27 February 2005, by regulation 3(2) Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Amendment Regulations 2004 (SR 2004/448) by inserting the words , and the first column of Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B, after the expression Schedule 1.