New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8 Applications for licences

• (1) Every application for a licence for a motor vehicle shall—

  • (a) Be in a form provided for the purpose by the chief executive; and

  • (b) Contain such information as is prescribed by regulations made under section 24 of this Act.

  (2) Without limiting subsection (1)(b) of this section, any such regulations may—

  • (a) Specify the persons who are entitled to make applications and hold licences:

  • (b) Require an applicant to furnish the chief executive with a completed bank authority, on a form provided by the chief executive or by a bank, directing a specified bank to effect an automatic transfer of funds to the Crown Bank Account, where an applicant wishes to make payments under this Act in that manner:

  • (c) Prescribed the manner of calculating the distance to which the licence relates, in the case of a distance licence.

  (3) In every application under this section for a distance licence for a motor vehicle, the minimum reading to be specified in the licence shall not be greater than the maximum reading specified in the last properly issued licence for that vehicle. Where an application for a distance licence is made in contravention of this subsection, the amount arrived at by multiplying the distance in kilometres by which the minimum reading was overstated by the road user charge per kilometre for that licence shall, until paid in full to, or remitted by, the chief executive, constitute a debt to the Crown by the applicant for the licence, and may be recovered accordingly in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

  The original subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 October 1989, by section 5 Road User Charges Amendment Act 1989 (1989 No 79) by omitting the words “Subject to sections 12 and 13 of this Act”.

  The original subsection (3) was substituted, as from 28 October 1986, by section 4(1) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 77), and was amended, as from 1 July 1987, by section 5(2) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 65) by substituting the words “in kilometres by which the minimum reading was overstated by the road user charge per kilometre for that licence” for the words “by which the minimum reading was overstated by the appropriate rate specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to this Act”.

  The section was substituted, as from 1 April 1993, by section 5(1) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 114).

  Subsection (3) was inserted, as from 20 August 1993, by section 35(1) Land Transport Act 1993 (1993 No 88).