Motor Car Amendment Act 2000
MOTOR CAR AMENDMENT ACT 2000

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BERMUDA
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MOTOR CAR AMENDMENT ACT 2000

[Date of Assent 25 July 2000]

[Operative Date 6 October 2000]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Motor Car Act 1951.

Be it enacted by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Assembly of
Bermuda, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Citation and commencement
1 This Act which amends the Motor Car Act 1951 (hereinafter
referred to as "the Act") may be cited as the Motor Car Amendment Act
2000 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the
Minister by notice published in the Gazette.

Insertion of new section in Act
2 The following section is inserted in the Act next after section
59—

"Personalized motor car identification plate duty
59A (1) There shall be payable personalized motor car
identification plate duty in respect of personalized motor car
identification plates at the rate of $70 on the issue of a

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personalized motor car identification plate and annually
thereafter for the licence period.

(2) The duty payable upon the issue of a personalized
motor car identification plate shall be payable at the rate of one-
twelfth part of the annual duty payable on the personalized
motor car identification plate for each complete calendar month
prior to the licence period.

(3) The holder of any personalized motor car
identification plate issued under this Act shall, on surrendering
it for cancellation to the Minister, be entitled to a refund to be
paid out of the Consolidated Fund of one-twelfth part of the
annual duty payable on the personalized motor car
identification plate for each complete calendar month of the
licence period still to run.

(4) In this section "licence period" means, in relation to
a personalized motor car identification plate issued in respect of
a motor car of any particular class, the period of 12 months
immediately preceding the date prescribed for the expiration of
the motor car licence issued in respect of motor cars of that
class.".