Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Road Safety (Vehicles) Regulations 1999 - SECT 234D

Obligations of motor car traders to report write-offs

234D. Obligations of motor car traders to report write-offs



(1) A motor car trader must provide to the Corporation information determined
by the Corporation, in the form approved by the Corporation, for each late
model vehicle that is a written-off vehicle and is in the care, custody or
control of the motor car trader in the course of the business carried on by
the motor car trader.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) Information must be provided under subregulation (1)-

   (a)  before the motor car trader disposes of the vehicle and within 7 days
        after the relevant date; or

   (b)  within such later time approved by the Corporation, either in a
        particular case or generally.

(3) Despite subregulation (1), a motor car trader is not required to provide
information to the Corporation under this regulation if-

   (a)  information about the vehicle has been given to the Corporation by an
        insurer or self-insurer under regulation 234B; or

   (b)  the registered operator of the vehicle has informed the Corporation in
        writing that the registered operator has written off the vehicle.