New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (VEHICLE REGISTRATION) ACT 1997 - SECT 15A

15A Regulations to establish system for vehicle standards and inspections

(1) General power Without limiting section 14, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to vehicle standards, inspection or testing of registrable vehicles and the production of registrable vehicles for inspection and testing.

(2) Regulations concerning vehicle standards Without limiting the scope of regulations under subsection (1), the regulations may:

(a) impose requirements with respect to the supply of information or documents to purchasers and prospective purchasers of registrable vehicles relating to their compliance with vehicle standards, and

(b) provide for the identification of any part (including an engine or engine block) of a registrable vehicle and the use of any such identification, and

(c) authorise the Authority to exempt any particular vehicle or class of vehicles from a vehicle standard prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Regulations concerning inspections Without limiting the scope of regulations under subsection (1), the regulations may, for the purposes of the inspection of any registrable vehicle, also:

(a) authorise the entry in or on any registrable vehicle (whether or not on a road or road related area), and

(b) authorise entry into or on any premises ordinarily used for the sale of any registrable vehicle or where a registrable vehicle may be held in possession for sale, and

(c) provide for the requirements to be observed with respect to the use and disposition of registrable vehicles that do not comply with the vehicle standards prescribed by the regulations or that are subject to inspections, and

(d) require lodgment, and provide for the forfeiture of, security for the performance of obligations specified by or under this Act on persons involved in the conduct of inspections, and

(e) make provision with respect to charges relating to inspections carried out by the Authority or by persons authorised by the Authority to carry out inspections.