New Zealand Legislation: Acts

155 Rules concerning vehicles

• Without limiting the general power to make rules under section 152, ordinary rules may—

  • (a) set out standards and requirements concerning vehicles, including their construction, mass and dimensions, emissions, environmental requirements, loading requirements, identification, repair, maintenance, modification, inspection, and fuel systems:

  • (b) set out standards and requirements concerning systems, components, devices, fittings, or equipment to be incorporated in the construction of, fitted to, or carried in or on motor vehicles, or to be used by the driver or any other person:

  • (c) provide for the recall of vehicles, or components or equipment of vehicles, that do not meet standards or requirements imposed by the rules, and for their recall where there is reason to believe that a procedure or requirement imposed by a rule has not adequately been carried out or complied with, including provisions—

    • (i) specifying the circumstances in which a vehicle must be recalled:

    • (ii) empowering persons to direct the recall of vehicles:

    • (iii) specifying the persons who may be directed to recall a vehicle (including the manufacturer, the agent of the manufacturer, the importer of the vehicle, the person or organisation responsible for certifying that a vehicle complies with standards or requirements imposed by the rules, or any other person responsible for the presence of a vehicle on a road):

  • (d) require and provide for vehicle identification numbers to be assigned to motor vehicles being operated in New Zealand:

  • (e) provide for the periodical or other examination of motor vehicles and the issue of evidence of vehicle inspection and certificates of loading:

  • (ea) provide for the periodical or other examination of traction engines and the issue of a certificate of compliance for boilers and other pressure vessels:

  • (f) subject to Part 17,—

    • (i) specify when vehicles are to be registered, deregistered, or re-registered:

    • (ii) set out procedures to verify compliance with standards and requirements of the regulations and the rules:

    • (iii) provide for the recording and making available of information about vehicles (including their systems, components, devices, fittings, and equipment).

  Compare: 1993 No 88 s 5(d), (e)

  Section 155(ea): inserted, on 16 January 2006, by section 75 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).

  Section 155(f): amended, on 1 May 2011, by section 35(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).