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.

  (2) Without limiting subsection (1)(b), 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 a 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.

  Section 8: substituted, on 1 April 1993, by section 5(1) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 114).

  Section 8(2)(b): amended, on 25 January 2005, pursuant to section 65R(3) of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).

  Section 8(3): added, on 20 August 1993, by section 35(1) of the Land Transport Act 1993 (1993 No 88).