Section 97 of the Road Transport Act 2013 (NSW) is ‘Duty to Attach Written-Off Warning Label to Written-Off Light Vehicles’ and is extracted below.
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The Legislation
Section 97 of the Road Transport Act 2013 is Duty to Attach Written-Off Warning Label to Written-Off Light Vehicles and reads as follows:
Duty to attach written-off warning label to written-off light vehicles
(cf VR Act, s 16P)
(1) An assessor must ensure that a written-off warning label is attached, in accordance with the statutory rules, at all times to any light vehicle in the person’s possession or control that has been assessed as being a total loss:
(a) to the part of the vehicle to which the vehicle identifier is attached (in the case of a dismantled vehicle), or
(b) to the vehicle (in any other case).
(2) The label must be attached within the period in which the information must be provided to the Authority about the vehicle under section 93.
The penalties
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
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