(1) This section
applies if a motor vehicle that has been towed is stored in a storage yard.
(2) If a relevant
person for the vehicle asks the person in charge of the storage yard to
release the vehicle, the person in charge must release the vehicle as soon as
is practicable but in any event no later than 4 hours after the request is
made.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of 100 PU.
(3) For the purposes
of determining when the 4-hour period referred to in subsection (2) expires,
only time between 9 am and 5 pm on a business day is to be counted.
(4) Regulations may
prescribe the steps that must be taken to release the vehicle for the purposes
of subsection (2).
[Section 103 inserted: No. 38 of 2020 s. 5.]
[ 103A, 103B. Deleted: No. 54 of 2006 s. 30.]