Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Motor Car Traders Act 1986 - SECT 82A

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82A. Documents available for inspection







(1) A licensed motor car trader must at all reasonable times at each office at
which that trader carries on business as a motor car trader keep all documents
relating to the business carried on at that office for the previous 3 years
available for inspection by an inspector in a form in which they can be
readily and expeditiously inspected by an inspector.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.



(2) If the licence of a licensed motor car trader has been surrendered or
cancelled in the last 3 years, the former licensee must make all documents
relating to the former business available for inspection by an inspector in a
form and at a place where they can be readily and expeditiously inspected by
an inspector.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) Despite subsection (1), if a licensed motor car trader carries on business
as a motor car trader at more than one premises and keeps a dealings book in
an electronically readable form under section 35, the motor car trader may
keep the dealings book on a single electronic database if-

   (a)  the record of each transaction in the dealings book clearly indicates
        the premises that the transaction relates to; and

   (b)  the record of each transaction relating to particular premises in the
        dealings book is readily accessible from those premises; and

   (c)  all paper documents relating to a transaction are kept together at the
        premises to which the transaction relates.