New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRS ACT 1980 - SECT 38

38 Registers of licences and certificates

(1) For the purposes of this Act:

(a) a register of licences is to be kept which includes particulars of licences and other prescribed particulars, and

(b) a register of certificates is to be kept which includes particulars of certificates and other prescribed particulars.

(2) The registers are to be kept by the Authority in the form determined by the Authority.

(3) A register may, at all reasonable hours, be inspected, and copies of all or any part of any entry in the register taken:

(a) without payment by:

(i) any member of the police force in his or her capacity as such a member,

(ii) any public servant in his or her capacity as such a servant, and

(iii) any person authorised by the Authority, or

(b) on payment of the prescribed fee, by any other person.

(4) A register shall be received in proceedings before the Authority, the Director-General or any court or tribunal as evidence of the matters required by or under this Act to be recorded in it, and any document purporting to be certified by the Authority to be a true copy of an entry in the register shall be received in proceedings before the Authority, the Director-General or any court or tribunal as evidence of any such matters contained in the entry.

(5) The Authority may, on the application of a person, issue to the person a certificate stating whether a person specified in the certificate is or was, on a date or during a period specified in the certificate, the holder of a licence or certificate.