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VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC (DRIVER LICENSING AND VEHICLE REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS 2010 (S.R. 2010, NO. 37) - REG 79

Duties and offences relating to written-off vehicle label

(1)  If an insurer, loss assessor, dealer, auto-parts dismantler or auction house assesses a vehicle as a total loss, that person must affix an appropriate written-off vehicle label to that vehicle –
(a) in the manner determined by the Registrar under regulation 78 ; and
(b) before notifying the Registrar of that assessment as required by regulation 77(1) ; and
(c) before that vehicle or any part of that vehicle is sold or otherwise disposed of.
Penalty:  In the case of –
(a) a first offence, a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units; and
(b) a second or subsequent offence, a fine not exceeding 40 penalty units.
(2)  Subregulation (1) does not apply to an insurer, loss assessor, dealer, auto-parts dismantler or auction house if an appropriate written-off vehicle label has already been affixed to the vehicle by another such person.
(3)  If a person who, on behalf of an insurer, loss assessor, dealer, auto-parts dismantler or auction house, has the responsibility of affixing a written-off vehicle label to a vehicle as required by subregulation (1) does not do so, both that person and the insurer, loss assessor, dealer, auto-parts dismantler or auction house are guilty of the offence.
(4)  A person must not –
(a) affix to a vehicle a written-off vehicle label if that vehicle has not been assessed as a total loss; or
(b) alter or deface a written-off vehicle label affixed to a vehicle; or
(c) clear or remove a written-off vehicle label affixed to a vehicle except where authorised to do so under regulation 81 or 82 .
Penalty:  In the case of –
(a) a first offence, a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units; and
(b) a second or subsequent offence, a fine not exceeding 40 penalty units.
(5)  If a person contravenes subregulation (4) at the direction of another person, both that person and that other person are guilty of the offence.



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