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(1) Where, after holding an inquiry under section 18A and considering any reports obtained pursuant to section 18B(7), a District Court Judge considers, on the balance of probabilities, that all the appropriate licences that ought to have been obtained for the motor vehicles specified in the chief executive's application during the period, and while they were owned by the person, so specified were not obtained, he may make an assessment of the amount of road user charges that in his opinion ought to have been, but were not, paid to the Crown in respect of those motor vehicles while they were owned by that person during that period.
(2) In giving reasons for an assessment under this section a District Court Judge need not indicate how the assessment is calculated or what licences he considers ought to have been obtained.
(3) Every assessment made by a District Court Judge under this section shall be delivered by him in open court.
(4) A District Court Judge may, when delivering an assessment, state the date from which the amount of the assessment shall be payable to the chief executive pursuant to subsection (5), which date may be earlier than the date the assessment is so delivered.
(5) Where a District Court Judge makes an assessment under this section, the amount of the assessment shall, from the date the Judge delivers his assessment (or such other date, if any, as the Judge specifies pursuant to subsection (4)), be payable to the chief executive by the person specified in the chief executive's application under section 18A; and, until paid in full to the chief executive, the amount shall constitute a debt due to the Crown by the person and may be recovered accordingly in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 18C: inserted, on 22 December 1980, by section 6 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1980 (1980 No 71).
Section 18C(1): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).
Section 18C(4): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).
Section 18C(5): amended, on 1 April 1988, by section 3 of the Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).
