Road User Charges (Infringement Offences) Regulations 2012

Reprint
as at 19 January 2015

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Road User Charges (Infringement Offences) Regulations 2012

(SR 2012/141)

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 11th day of June 2012

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Transport.

Pursuant to section 89(p) and (q) of the Road User Charges Act 2012, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Regulations

1 Title

  • These regulations are the Road User Charges (Infringement Offences) Regulations 2012.

2 Commencement

  • These regulations come into force on 1 August 2012.

3 Interpretation

  • (1) In these regulations, Act means the Road User Charges Act 2012.

    (2) The brief descriptions of offences given in the second column of Schedule 1 are intended to be only an indication of the content of the provisions to which they relate, and are not intended to be used in the interpretation of the provisions.

    (3) Terms or expressions used and not defined in these regulations but defined in the Act have, in these regulations, the same meaning as they have in the Act.

4 Infringement offences and fees

  • (1) A breach of a provision of the Act specified in the first column of Schedule 1 is an infringement offence against the Act for which the infringement fee is,—

    • (a) for an individual, the fee specified in relation to that offence in the third column of Schedule 1:

    • (b) for a body corporate, the fee specified in relation to that offence in the fourth column of Schedule 1.

    (2) An offence against section 10(2) of the Act is an infringement offence against the Act for which the infringement fee is,—

    • (a) for an offence involving a light RUC vehicle, $200:

    • (b) for an offence involving a heavy RUC vehicle, the fee specified in the second column of Schedule 2 that relates to the amount of distance by which the distance reading for the vehicle exceeds the maximum reading specified on the distance licence for the vehicle.

Schedule 1
Infringement offences and fees

r 4(1)

Provision of Act Brief description of offence Infringement fee for individual
($)		 Infringement fee for body corporate
($)
Section 8(5)(a) Operating a RUC vehicle where the vehicle is not fitted with properly working distance recorder 400 800
Section 8(5)(b) Operating a RUC vehicle where the electronic distance recorder or hubodometer fitted to the vehicle has not been provided by an electronic system provider or approved by the RUC collector (as the case may be) 400 800
Section 8(5)(c) Operating a RUC vehicle where the electronic distance recorder or hubodometer fitted to the vehicle is not fitted in accordance with regulations 400 800
Section 8(5)(d) Operating a RUC vehicle where the distance recorder fitted to the vehicle is not accurately recording the distance travelled by the vehicle 400 800
Section 9(4)(a) Operating a RUC vehicle on a road where the vehicle does not have a distance licence that complies with section 9(2) of the Act 400 800
Section 9(4)(b) Operating a heavy RUC vehicle on a road where the distance licence for the vehicle has expired 400 800
Section 19(2) Operating a RUC vehicle on a road without displaying a RUC licence in accordance with regulations  200 800
Section 21(2) Failing to produce a RUC licence on demand by an enforcement officer 400 800
Section 24(1) Displaying or causing to be displayed on a RUC vehicle anything (not being a RUC licence) that is likely to be mistaken for a RUC licence without reasonable excuse 400 800
Section 25(1) Operating a RUC vehicle on a road with a RUC licence that is obscured or not easily distinguishable  200 800
Section 40(7) Operating or permitting a light RUC vehicle to be operated in breach of condition of exemption granted under section 40 of the Act 200 800
Section 52(1)(a) Operating a RUC vehicle on a road where the hubodometer fitted to the vehicle does not have a serial number, has an obscured serial number, or has a serial number that is identical to that of another hubodometer of the same make 200 800
Section 52(1)(b) Operating a RUC vehicle on a road where the distance reading of the hubodometer fitted to the vehicle is obscured  200 800

  • Schedule 1: amended, on 19 January 2015, by regulation 4 of the Road User Charges (Infringement Offences) Amendment Regulations 2014 (LI 2014/375).

Schedule 2
Infringement fee for infringement offence against section 10(2) of Act involving heavy RUC vehicle

r 4(2)(b)

Distance above maximum reading specified in distance licence for heavy RUC vehicle (km)Infringement fee
($)
501–1 000300
1 001–2 500600
2 501–5 0001,000
5 000 or more1,500

Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 14 June 2012.

Reprints notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Road User Charges (Infringement Offences) Regulations 2012 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.

2 Legal status

  • Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes
4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint