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POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2006 No. 57 - SECT 40

40 Replacement of s 118 (Sale of motor vehicle if not recovered after impounding ends)

Section 118--

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'(1) This section applies if, within 30 days after a period of impounding ends--

(a) the owner of the motor vehicle does not recover the motor vehicle; or
(b) after making reasonable inquiries, a police officer can not find out who owns the motor vehicle.

'(2) The commissioner may sell the motor vehicle and anything in or on it by public auction or dispose of it in the way the commissioner considers appropriate.

'(3) For subsection (2), the motor vehicle is taken to have been forfeited to the State.

'(4) Notice of the proposed sale or disposal must be given by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the locality where the vehicle was impounded but may, if the owner is not known, be given by using the police service internet website.

'(5) Also, the commissioner must give written notice of the proposed sale or disposal of the motor vehicle to the owner, if the owner is known.

'(6) However, if the name of the owner of the motor vehicle is not known or the owner can not be located, the notice mentioned in subsection (5) may be given by making the information about the proposed sale of the motor vehicle, but not the owner's name and address, available on the police service internet website.

'(7) If notice as required under subsection (5) is given as mentioned in subsection (6), the owner is taken, for this section, to have been given notice of the proposed sale of the motor vehicle.'.



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