Section 75 of the Road Transport Act 2013 (NSW) is ‘Direction to Provide Documents Concerning Use of Interstate Registered Vehicles’ and is extracted below.
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The Legislation
Section 75 of the Road Transport Act 2013 is Direction to Provide Documents Concerning Use of Interstate Registered Vehicles and reads as follows:
Direction to provide documents concerning use of interstate registered vehicles
(cf VR Act, s 22B)
(1) If the Authority or a police officer is of the opinion that an interstate registered vehicle is being used for any business or commercial purposes in this jurisdiction, the Authority or officer may, for the purposes of ascertaining whether section 74 (1) has been or is being contravened, direct a person to provide the Authority or officer with such documents relating to the use of the vehicle as are in the control or possession of the person.
(2) A person must not fail to comply with a direction under subsection (1).
The penalties
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) or 20 penalty units (in any other case).
(3) A direction under subsection (1):
(a) must be in writing, and
(b) must specify the time and manner for complying with the direction, and
(c) may relate to a particular class of documents that are in the control or possession of the person to whom the direction is given.
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