New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS (NOISE CONTROL) REGULATION 2008 - REG 27

27 Defective vehicle labels

(1) An authorised officer who issues a defective vehicle notice for a motor vehicle may also affix a defective vehicle label to the inside or outside of the front windscreen of the motor vehicle or in a conspicuous position on some other part of the vehicle.

(2) A defective vehicle label is to be in the approved form and must include the following particulars:

(a) the defect on the basis of which the defective vehicle notice was issued,

(b) the date (if any) after which the motor vehicle must not be used on a road or road related area if the defect has not been remedied,

(c) such other particulars as the EPA may require.

(3) An authorised officer who withdraws a defective vehicle notice for a motor vehicle must also remove, or direct the removal of, the defective vehicle label from the motor vehicle.

(4) A person must not remove, obscure or deface a defective vehicle label affixed to a motor vehicle under this clause unless the person is an authorised officer or is acting under the direction of an authorised officer.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units in the case of a corporation, 50 penalty units in the case of an individual.

(5) A person must not cause or permit a motor vehicle to be used if the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that a defective vehicle label affixed to the motor vehicle under this clause has been removed, obscured or defaced in contravention of subclause (4).

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units in the case of a corporation, 50 penalty units in the case of an individual.

(6) A person is not guilty of an offence under subclause (5) arising because the motor vehicle is being taken directly to a place:

(a) where repairs or other work required to reduce the noise level of the vehicle are to be carried out, or

(b) in accordance with a notice issued in respect of the motor vehicle under clause 26 or under section 207 of the Act,

or is being taken directly from any such place to the place where the vehicle is usually kept.