Victorian Current Acts

ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 - SECT 84BF

    (1)     An enforcement official may cancel the acceptance of a statement as an effective statement for the purposes of this Part (including a statement taken to have been accepted by force of section 84BE(7)) —

S. 84BF(1)(a) amended by No. 74/2007 s. 12.

        (a)     if in the case of a known user statement, a sold vehicle statement or a tolling nomination statement, the person nominated in the statement as being the responsible person gives to an enforcement official within the prescribed period a nomination rejection statement and the enforcement official is satisfied, having regard to the matters stated in the nomination rejection statement, that the nomination was incorrect; or

Note

It is an offence to provide false or misleading information in a statement: see section 84BI.

        (b)     if in the case of a statement not containing all the information required by section 84BE(2), the information contained in the statement proves not to be sufficient to identify or locate the nominated person; or

        (c)     in prescribed circumstances.

    (2)     If the acceptance of a statement as an effective statement is cancelled under subsection (1), on that cancellation—

        (a)     the statement ceases to be an effective statement for the purposes of this Part; and

        (b)     the person who would, but for the statement, have continued to be the responsible person in relation to the motor vehicle or trailer (as the case requires) becomes again the responsible person.

S. 84BG inserted by No. 81/2006 s. 24 (as amended by No. 14/2007 s. 9).