MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 98MK

MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 98MK

98MK—Off the hook transactions

        (1)         A person must not directly or indirectly give or agree or offer to give, or receive, agree to receive, or solicit, a fee, reward or benefit of any kind for or in expectation of obtaining for the person or another person—

            (a)         the work of repairing or wrecking a damaged motor vehicle; or

            (b)         permission to prepare or give a quotation for repair of a damaged motor vehicle; or

            (c)         permission to place a damaged motor vehicle in storage; or

            (d)         possession or control of a damaged motor vehicle for any purpose related to the storage, repair or wrecking of the vehicle.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (2)         Where in any proceedings for an offence against subsection (1) circumstances are proved from which it is reasonable to infer that the defendant was a party to a transaction to which that subsection applies, it will be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the defendant was a party to such a transaction.