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ROAD TRANSPORT (VEHICLE REGISTRATION) ACT 1997 - SECT 18

Prohibition on using unregistered registrable vehicles

18 Prohibition on using unregistered registrable vehicles

(cf Cth Act s 20, Traffic Act s 6A)

(1) A person must not use an unregistered registrable vehicle on a road or on a road related area.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the use of a registrable vehicle on a road or road related area if:
(a) the vehicle belongs to a class of vehicle prescribed by a regulation referred to in section 16 as a vehicle to which this Act does not apply, or
(b) the use is otherwise permitted by this Act or under the regulations.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a registrable vehicle that was left standing on a road or road related area:
(a) within the period of 15 days after the date on which that vehicle ceased to be registered or to be exempted from being registered, or
(b) with the consent of the responsible person for the road or area.
(4) In this section:
"registrable vehicle" includes:
(a) an incomplete or partially constructed vehicle, and
(b) the remains of a vehicle.
"responsible person", in relation to a road or road related area on which a vehicle was left standing, means:
(a) if the care, control and management of the road or area was then vested in a person other than the owner of the road or area-the person in whom the care, control and management of the road or area was vested, or
(b) in any other case-the owner of the road or area.



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