New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRS ACT 1980 - SECT 21

21 Duration of licence and annual licence fee

(1) A licence has effect on and from the date of issue of the licence.

(2) Except while it is suspended, a licence continues in force until it is duly surrendered, cancelled or revoked or ceases to have effect under subsection (5).

(3) The prescribed fee in respect of a licence is payable annually on or before the anniversary of the date of issue of the licence in the year concerned.

(3A) A holder of a licence, or a person who held a licence during a year or part of a year preceding a date referred to in subsection (3), must lodge with the Authority a statement in respect of that year or part year.

(3B) The statement is to be in the form approved by the Authority, must be accompanied by the documents (if any) required by the regulations and must be lodged not later than one month after the end of the year in respect of which it is lodged or such other period as the Authority may permit.

(4) A person whose licence is suspended continues to be liable to pay the prescribed fee and to supply information under this Act, but is not otherwise taken to be the holder of the licence (except for the purpose of its surrender).

(5) If a holder of a licence contravenes this section, the Authority must give a written notice to the holder specifying that the licence will be cancelled, unless the holder complies within 14 days after the notice is given.

(5A) The Authority must cancel the licence of a person who fails to comply within 14 days after the notice is given.

(5B) A person must not make a statement that the person knows is false or misleading in, or in relation to, a statement or document required to be provided under this section.

Maximum penalty (subsection (5B)): 20 penalty units.

(5C) The Authority may reinstate a licence cancelled under this section but only if satisfied that there is a reasonable explanation for the failure to pay the fee or lodge the statement that resulted in the cancellation of the licence.

(5D) The reinstatement of a licence does not take effect until the unpaid fee is paid or the statement is lodged, or both the fee is paid and the statement is lodged, as the case requires.

(6) When a licence is cancelled or is suspended, the person who was or is the holder of the licence is to deliver it promptly to the Authority.

Maximum penalty (subsection (6)): 2 penalty units.