Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

TRAFFIC ACT - SECT 43AA

(1) If a demerit points offence is detected by a traffic infringement detection device and:

(a) an infringement notice is issued to a body corporate that is the registered owner of the vehicle; and

(b) the registered owner does not, within the time allowed by the notice, return a statutory declaration:

(i) identifying a natural person as the driver of the vehicle at the time the offence was committed; or

(ii) identifying another body corporate that, at the time the offence was committed, had control of the vehicle under a hire or lease agreement;

the body corporate is liable to an infringement notice penalty equal to 5 times the infringement notice penalty amount prescribed for the offence.

(2) If a demerit points offence is detected by a traffic infringement detection device and:

(a) an infringement notice is issued to a body corporate that, at the relevant time, had control of the vehicle under a hire or lease agreement; and

(b) the body corporate does not, within the time allowed by the notice, return a statutory declaration identifying a natural person as the driver of the vehicle at the time the offence was committed;

the body corporate is liable to an infringement notice penalty equal to 5 times the infringement notice penalty amount prescribed for the offence.

(3) In this section:

body corporate includes an Agency and, so far as the legislative power of the Legislative Assembly permits, an agency of the Commonwealth or another jurisdiction.

registered owner is taken to include a nominated operator under section 92A of the Motor Vehicles Act .