New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - SECT 14A

14A Making of claims-unidentified motor vehicles

(1) Where the death of or bodily injury to any person is caused by or arises out of the use of a motor vehicle upon a public street in New South Wales but the identity of the motor vehicle cannot after due inquiry and search be established, any person who could have enforced a claim for damages against the owner or driver of the motor vehicle in respect of the death or bodily injury may enforce against the Government Insurance Office the claim which the secondmentioned person could have enforced against the owner or driver of the motor vehicle.

(2) The inquiry and search referred to in subsection (1) may be proved orally or by the affidavit of the person who made the inquiry and search.