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POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 76

76 Duties of police officer after impounding motor vehicle

(1) After impounding the motor vehicle, the police officer must move the motor vehicle, or arrange for the motor vehicle to be moved, to a holding yard in the way the police officer considers appropriate.

Examples of ways of moving a motor vehicle after it is impounded--
driving, pushing, towing or transporting the motor vehicle

(2) However, if the motor vehicle is a motor vehicle that is being unlawfully used or has been stolen or is a rental motor vehicle--

(a) the motor vehicle must be released to the owner as soon as reasonably practicable; and
(b) an application for an impounding order or a forfeiture order about the motor vehicle must not be made.

(3) In this section--

rental motor vehicle means a motor vehicle made available by a person in the course of a business in which the person rents vehicles to members of the public.



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