New Zealand Legislation: Acts

18A District Court Judge may hold inquiry on application of chief executive

• (1) A District Court Judge may, on the application of the chief executive, hold an inquiry into the number and kind of licences that ought to have been obtained under this Act—

  • (a) During a period specified in the application (being a period commencing not earlier than 6 years before the date of the application); and

  • (b) For motor vehicles specified in the application (being motor vehicles that the chief executive believes were owned during the whole or any part of the period by a person specified in the application).

  (2) The chief executive shall not make an application to a District Court for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section unless he or she considers that it is likely that all the appropriate licences that ought to have been obtained during the period, and for the motor vehicles, specified in the application were not so obtained.

  (3) The chief executive may, in an application to a District Court Judge for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, specify any convictions relating to offences under section 23 of this Act that have, during the period of 6 years immediately preceding the date of the application, been entered against the person specified in the application.

  Sections 18A to 18C and the heading above section 18A were inserted, as from 22 December 1980, by section 6 Road User Charges Amendment Act 1980 (1980 No 71).

  Subsections (1) and (3) were amended, as from 1 April 1988, by section 3 Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46) by substituting the words “chief executive” for the word “Commissioner”.

  Subsection (2) was substituted, as from 1 April 1993, by section 9 Road User Charges Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 114).