New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 574

574 Amendment of improvement notice

(1) An improvement notice given by an authorised officer who is a police officer may be amended by any authorised officer who is a police officer and who has the relevant police commissioner's written authority to issue improvement notices under this Division.

(2) An improvement notice given by an authorised officer who is not a police officer may be amended by any authorised officer who is not a police officer.

(3) An amendment of an improvement notice given to a person is ineffective to the extent it purports to deal with a contravention of a different provision of this Law to that dealt with in the improvement notice when first given.

(4) If an authorised officer decides to amend an improvement notice given to a person, the officer must give the person notice of the amendment stating the following--

(a) the amendment;

(b) the reasons for the amendment;

(c) the review and appeal information for the decision to amend the improvement notice.

Note--: Section 23 of Schedule 1 allows for the amendment of an improvement notice.