New Zealand Legislation: Acts

66 Owner or hirer to give information as to identity of driver or passenger

• (1) The heading to section 118 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, after the word “hirer”, the words or licence holder.

  (2) Section 118(3) of the principal Act is amended by—

  • (a) inserting, after the expression “subsection (2)”, the words or subsection (6) ; and

  • (b) inserting, after the word “hirer”, the words or licence holder.

  (3) Section 118 of the principal Act is amended by adding the following subsection:

  • “(6) If the holder of a transport service licence employs any person to drive a vehicle under that licence, the licence holder, on being informed of any offence alleged to have been committed by that person or by a person driving a vehicle being used under the licence, and on being requested to do so by an enforcement officer, must supply in writing the full name and address of the driver.”

  (4) Section 118 of the principal Act is amended by omitting the compare note and substituting the following compare note:

  Compare: 1962 No 135 s 67; 1989 No 74 s 32(1)