New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR DEALERS ACT 1974 - SECT 45

45 No indemnity for dealer

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a dealer incurs any costs or expenses by virtue of the operation of this Act in relation to the sale of a motor vehicle, the dealer is not entitled to be indemnified in respect of those costs or expenses by any antecedent owner and any contract or agreement providing, directly or indirectly, for the dealer to be so indemnified is, to the extent that it does so, void.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a contract or agreement providing for a dealer to be indemnified, as provided in that subsection, by an antecedent owner of a motor vehicle who is a trade owner or a person who carries on the business of manufacturing or assembling motor vehicles.