MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 44
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 44
44—Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles
(1) If an alteration
or addition prescribed by the regulations is made to a motor vehicle during
the period for which it is registered, the Registrar must, within 14 days
after the making of the alteration or addition, be given written notice
containing particulars of the alteration or addition.
(1a) The Registrar may
require a person who gives notice under subsection (1) to provide
satisfactory evidence by statutory declaration or other means to verify the
information disclosed in the notice.
(3) If a motor vehicle
is altered or added to during the period for which it is registered and the
alteration or addition is such that, if it had been made before the
registration, the fee for that registration would have been more than the
amount paid, the Registrar must, within 28 days after the making of the
alteration or addition, be paid as an additional fee the amount that bears to
the difference the same proportion as the number of months in the unexpired
period of the registration (portion of a month being treated as a month) bears
to the number of months in the period of registration.
(3a) In calculating an
additional fee payable under this section, any amount of cents not exceeding
five cents will be excluded and any amount of cents exceeding five cents will
be counted as ten cents.
(3b) Despite
subsections (3) and (3a), the regulations may, for cases of a prescribed
kind, provide a different method for calculating an additional fee payable
under subsection (3).
(4) If a requirement
of subsection (1) or (3) is not complied with, the registered owner and
the registered operator of the vehicle are each guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $750.
(4a) If a person does
not comply with a requirement made of the person under subsection (1a),
the person is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $750.
(5) In proceedings for
an offence against this section, the court may, in addition to imposing a
fine, order the defendant to pay to the Registrar any additional fee for which
the defendant is liable under subsection (3).
(6) In this
section—
"alteration", in relation to a vehicle, includes the wrecking of the vehicle
or the disassembling of the vehicle or part of the vehicle for salvage.