New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 Cancellation of registration where licence for motor vehicle not renewed

• (1) If following the expiration of any licence issued for any registered motor vehicle a year elapses without a new licence being issued for that motor vehicle, the Registrar, at any time after the expiration of that year, but before any new licence is issued for the motor vehicle, may cancel the registration of the motor vehicle.

  (2) Upon the cancellation under the provisions of this section of the registration of a motor vehicle, any person in possession of the registration plates shall, when required by the Registrar, surrender those plates to the Registrar or to any traffic officer.

  (3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), the Registrar may not cancel the registration of a motor vehicle at any time during which the vehicle, by virtue of any provision of this Act or any regulations made under section 35A(1)(a), is for a specified period exempt from the requirement in section 5(1A)(a) to be licensed at all times.

  Compare: 1962 No 135 s 20; 1972 No 129 s 3

  Section 28(3): substituted on 2 September 1993, by section 18 of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 110).

  Section 28(3): substituted on 1 September 1997, by section 9(1) of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 2).