New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRS ACT 1980 - SECT 64A

64A Recovery of money from directors

(1) If the payment of an amount out of the Contingency Fund has been made as a consequence of the act or omission of a person that is a body corporate, the Authority may, without affecting the operation of section 64, recover, jointly or severally, from any person who was a director or persons who were directors of the body corporate when the act or omission occurred, the amount of that payment as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(2) In any proceedings for the recovery of an amount under this section, judgment is not to be entered against a defendant who proves that the act or omission occurred without the defendant’s express or implied authority or consent.