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MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ACT 1973 - SECT 25

MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ACT 1973 - SECT 25

25 .         Register to be kept by licence holders etc.

        (1)         Every dealer, not being a financier or car hire operator, shall keep or cause to be kept a register, in the prescribed form, at any authorised premises in respect of which the licence is issued; and shall record or cause to be recorded in that register the prescribed particulars of every transaction entered into, in the course of dealing at those premises.

        (1a)         Where a financier or car hire operator carries on the business of selling vehicles to persons other than persons who become trade owners the financier or car hire operator shall, at the place at which he carries on that business, keep or cause to be kept a register in the form referred to in subsection (1) and shall record or enter therein such particulars as are required to be recorded or entered pursuant to that subsection.

        (2)         A dealer, yard manager, financier or car hire operator shall produce the register kept pursuant to subsection (1) or (1a), as the case requires, for inspection, on demand, by any authorised officer, any member of the Police Force, or by a traffic inspector duly appointed for the district wherein the premises are situated.

        (2a)         A person who is registered as a car market operator shall keep or cause to be kept a register, in the prescribed form, for any premises authorised under section 21A in relation to that registration, and shall record or cause to be recorded in that register the prescribed particulars of —

            (a)         every vehicle offered, exposed or displayed for sale at the premises in the course of a car market conducted at the premises pursuant to the registration; and

            (b)         where he is notified under subsection (2e) of the sale at the premises of a vehicle referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection, that sale.

        (2b)         A car market operator shall produce the register kept pursuant to subsection (2a) for inspection, on demand, by any authorised officer or any member of the Police Force.

        (2c)         Subsection (2a)(a) shall be complied with in relation to a vehicle before the vehicle is offered, exposed or displayed for sale.

        (2d)         Subsection (2a)(b) shall be complied with in relation to a vehicle forthwith after notification of the sale of the vehicle is given under subsection (2e).

        (2e)         Where a car market is being conducted by a person who is registered as a car market operator at premises authorised under section 21A in relation to that registration a person who sells a vehicle at the premises shall, forthwith after he sells the vehicle, notify the car market operator of the sale.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (3)         A person shall not knowingly —

            (a)         make a false entry; or

            (b)         cause a false entry to be made,

                in any register kept for the purposes of this section.

        Penalty applicable to subsections (1), (1a), (2), (2a), (2b) and (3): $5 000.

        [Section 25 amended: No. 58 of 1974 s. 21; No. 49 of 1979 s. 10; No. 87 of 1981 s. 13; No. 106 of 1981 s. 15; No. 68 of 1982 s. 2; No. 4 of 2002 s. 24, 32(1) and 39.]