New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Surrender of road user licences

• (1) Where—

  • (a) a motor vehicle to which a current licence relates is destroyed or becomes permanently useless as a motor vehicle or is removed permanently beyond New Zealand and the vehicle's registration plates have been surrendered to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles; or

  • (b) [Repealed]

  • (c) the chief executive is satisfied, in respect of a current licence relating to a motor vehicle, that—

    • (i) a mistake has been made in the application for the licence and a replacement licence has been purchased;

    • (ii) [Repealed]

    • (iii) [Repealed]

    • (iv) the distance recorder, or a registration plate, specified in the licence has been removed from the motor vehicle and a replacement licence has been purchased; or

    • (v) [Repealed]

  • (d) the chief executive in his absolute discretion is satisfied, in respect of a licence relating to a motor vehicle, that for any other reason this section should apply—

  the chief executive shall, as soon as practicable after application to surrender the licence is made to him in accordance with this section, refund or cause to be refunded to the applicant a proportion (calculated in accordance with subsection (3)) of the road user charge paid in respect of the licence.

  (2) Every application under this section shall be in a form provided for the purpose by the chief executive and shall contain such information as the chief executive considers necessary to enable the refund to be made in accordance with this section. Every application under paragraph (c) (except subparagraph (ii)) or paragraph (d) of subsection (1) shall be accompanied by the licence.

  (3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the proportion of a road user charge to be refunded shall be—

  • (a) in the case of a distance licence or a supplementary licence, the proportion arrived at by dividing the difference between the maximum reading specified in the licence and the reading of the motor vehicle's distance recorder at the time of application by the distance to which the licence relates:

  • (b) in the case of a time licence, the proportion arrived at by dividing the number of whole months between the time of application and the end of the period to which the licence relates by the total number of whole months to which the licence relates.

  (4) No refund of a road user charge shall be made under this section after the expiry of 2 years from the date of issue of the licence in respect of which the application is made, unless—

  • (a) the application is made to the chief executive before the expiry of that 2-year period; or

  • (b) the chief executive otherwise determines, in any particular case.

  Section 17(1): substituted, on 23 November 1979, by section 7(2) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 65).

  Section 17(1): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).

  Section 17(1)(a): amended, on 28 October 1986, by section 8(a) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 77).

  Section 17(1)(b): repealed, on 25 March 2002, by section 5(2)(a) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 4).

  Section 17(1)(c): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).

  Section 17(1)(c)(i): amended, on 28 October 1986, by section 8(b) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 77).

  Section 17(1)(c)(ii): repealed, on 20 August 1993, by section 35(1) of the Land Transport Act 1993 (1993 No 88).

  Section 17(1)(c)(iii): repealed, on 20 August 1993, by section 35(1) of the Land Transport Act 1993 (1993 No 88).

  Section 17(1)(c)(iv): amended, on 28 October 1986, by section 8(b) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 77).

  Section 17(1)(c)(v): repealed, on 1 April 1993, by section 7(1) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 114).

  Section 17(1)(d): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).

  Section 17(1)(d): amended, on 28 October 1986, by section 8(d) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 77).

  Section 17(2): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).

  Section 17(2): amended, on 23 November 1979, by section 7(3) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 65).

  Section 17(3)(a): amended, on 25 March 2002, by section 5(2)(b) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 4).

  Section 17(3)(b): amended, on 25 March 2002, by section 5(2)(c) of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 4).

  Section 17(4): added, on 1 October 1989, by section 8 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1989 (1989 No 79).