South Australian Current Regulations

PASSENGER TRANSPORT REGULATIONS 2009 - REG 141

141—Issue and display of inspection labels

        (1)         An approved vehicle inspector who issues a certificate of inspection under section 54 of the Act must at the same time issue an inspection label in accordance with subregulation (2).

        (2)         The inspection label must—

            (a)         be in a form, and be a colour, determined by the Minister; and

            (b)         indicate, in a manner determined by the Minister—

                  (i)         the month during which the relevant certificate of inspection will expire through effluxion of time; or

                  (ii)         in the case of a label issued with a temporary certificate—the time when the certificate will expire.

        (3)         The operator of a vehicle to which section 54 of the Act applies must ensure that a valid inspection label for the vehicle is affixed to the inside or back surface of—

            (a)         the left side of the windscreen of the vehicle; or

            (b)         a pivoted or hinged ventilation window adjacent to the left side of the windscreen of the vehicle; or

            (c)         a fixed window adjacent to the left side of the windscreen of the vehicle,

in a position where the entire front of the label faces towards, and is visible from, the front or left hand side of the vehicle, whenever the vehicle is used as a public passenger vehicle.

Maximum penalty: $750.

Expiation fee: $105.

        (4)         A person must not provide or drive a public passenger vehicle for the purposes of a passenger transport service, other than a vehicle that does not require a certificate of inspection under section 54 of the Act, if—

            (a)         an inspection label is not affixed to the vehicle in the manner referred to in subregulation (3); or

            (b)         there is affixed to the vehicle an inspection label that has ceased to be in force, or that has been issued in respect of another vehicle; or

            (c)         an inspection label affixed to the vehicle has been altered, defaced, mutilated or added to; or

            (d)         the vehicle has affixed to it an imitation of an inspection label.

        (5)         For the purposes of subregulation (4)(b), an inspection label will cease to be in force if the certificate of inspection issued in respect of the vehicle is no longer in force under section 54 of the Act.

        (6)         The Minister or an approved vehicle inspector may, if satisfied that an inspection label issued under this section has been lost, destroyed, or rendered useless, issue a substitute label.

        (7)         An authorised officer or an approved vehicle inspector may remove from a vehicle an inspection label that relates to a certificate of inspection that is no longer in force under section 54 of the Act.

        (8)         This regulation does not apply with respect to a vehicle that is the subject of a certificate of inspection recognised by the Minister under section 54(19) of the Act.

        (9)         This regulation does not apply with respect to a vehicle used as a public passenger vehicle immediately before the commencement of this regulation until the vehicle is first inspected under section 54 of the Act after the commencement of this regulation.

        (10)         In this regulation—

"operator" has the same meaning as in section 54 of the Act.