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(1) No person shall, without the written consent of the chief executive, fit a hubodometer to a motor vehicle for the purposes of this Act, if he knows or ought to know that the hubodometer has previously been fitted to the motor vehicle and that motor vehicle has been operated after the removal, loss, or displacement of the hubodometer from the motor vehicle.
(2) No person shall, without the written consent of the chief executive, fit a hubodometer to a motor vehicle for the purposes of this Act, if he knows or ought to know that the hubodometer has previously been fitted to another motor vehicle for the purposes of this Act and that the other motor vehicle is still registered under Part 1 of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986.
(3) No person, other than the manufacturer thereof or a person approved in writing for this purpose by the chief executive, shall repair or modify or attempt to repair or modify, or in any way tamper with any part of, a hubodometer of a kind that may be fitted to a motor vehicle for the purposes of this Act.
(4) Any consent or approval given by the chief executive for the purposes of this section may be given on such terms and conditions as the chief executive thinks fit; and may at any time be varied or revoked by the chief executive by notice in writing to the person.
This section was inserted, as from 23 November 1979, by section 11(1) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 65).
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 28 October 1986, by section 13 Road User Charges Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 77) by inserting the words “, loss, or displacement”
.
Subsection (2) was amended, as from 30 April 1986, by section 56(2) Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986 (1986 No 6) by substituting the words “Part 1 of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986”
for the words “Part 2 of the Transport Act 1962”
.
Subsections (2) 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 (3) was amended, as from 1 April 1988, by section 4(1) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46) by substituting the words “chief executive”
for the words “Secretary for Transport”
.
Subsection (4) was substituted, as from 1 April 1988, by section 4(2) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46).