New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR DEALERS ACT 1974 - SECT 47

47 Certain misdescriptions prohibited

(1) A person shall not:

(b) state or represent as the year of manufacture of a motor vehicle a year other than the actual year of manufacture of the vehicle,

(c) state or represent as the year of first registration of a motor vehicle a year other than the actual year of first registration of the vehicle, or

(d) state or represent as the model designation of a motor vehicle a model designation other than the actual model designation of the vehicle.

(3) For the purposes of this section "year of first registration" in relation to a motor vehicle means the year in which the vehicle is first registered.

(4) Nothing in this section affects the operation of Part 5 of the Fair Trading Act 1987 (as in force before its repeal by the Fair Trading Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act 2010 ), or Part 4-1 of the Australian Consumer Law (NSW) , but a person shall not be prosecuted in respect of the same matter for an offence under this section and that Part.