Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1986 No. 291 INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT REGULATIONS - REG 13

13. (1) Where-

   (a)  a person, being the owner of a motor vehicle or trailer, proposes to
        make, or has made, an application to a Registration Authority for the
        registration of the motor vehicle or trailer; and

   (b)  the motor vehicle or trailer is not, under regulation 14, exempt from
        inspection, the person shall, subject to sub-regulation (5), produce
        the motor vehicle or trailer for inspection by the Registration
        Authority or a person authorised in writing by the Registration
        Authority to carry out such
inspections (in this Division referred to as an "authorised person").

(2) The purpose of an inspection referred to in sub-regulation (1) is to
ascertain whether the motor vehicle or trailer produced for inspection
satisfies the conditions for registration set out in paragraphs 9 (1) (d) and
(e) of the Act.

(3) Where a motor vehicle or trailer fitted with a charge monitoring device is
produced for inspection in accordance with sub-regulation (1), the
Registration Authority or authorised person carrying out the inspection shall
inspect the device to ascertain whether-

   (a)  the device is in working order;

   (b)  the particulars referred to in paragraph 2 (a) or (b) in Schedule 2
        are displayed on the device or on a plate affixed to the device;

   (c)  all the external parts of the device and all connections between the
        device and the vehicle are properly sealed; and

   (d)  there are any signs indicating that the device has, at any time since
        it was fitted to the motor vehicle or trailer or last inspected in
        accordance with this sub-regulation, whichever is later, failed to
        operate normally, and shall ascertain that the certificate issued
        under regulation 40 or 45 in respect of the device is current.

(4) Where a motor vehicle or trailer has been produced for inspection in
accordance with sub-regulation (1), the Registration Authority or authorised
person carrying out the inspection shall issue, in respect of the motor
vehicle or trailer, a certificate of inspection in accordance with the
approved form and, subject to sub-regulation (5), the certificate so issued
shall, for the purposes of section 9 of the Act, be evidence that the motor
vehicle or trailer has been produced for inspection by the Registration
Authority, or authorised person, issuing the certificate.

(5) If a motor vehicle or trailer produced for inspection in accordance with
sub-regulation (1) is not-

   (a)  in the case of a motor vehicle or trailer that is already
        registered-re-registered; or

   (b)  in any other case-registered, within such period from the day on which
        the inspection of the motor vehicle or trailer is completed as is
        equal to the relevant period in relation to the motor vehicle or
        trailer, the owner of the motor vehicle or trailer shall, for the
        purposes of section 9 of the Act, be deemed not to have complied with
        the provisions of sub-regulation (1).
(6) In sub-regulation (5), "relevant period", in relation to a motor vehicle
or trailer, means-

   (a)  in the case of a motor vehicle or trailer that is normally garaged at
        a place that is situated beyond a radius of 250 kilometres from a
        place where the motor vehicle or trailer may be produced for
        inspection by a Registration Authority or an authorised person-a
        period of 90 days; or

   (b)  in any other case-a period of 45 days.