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MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ACT 1973 - SECT 17C

17C .         Power to refuse registration under s. 17B or renewal of registration

        (1)         Despite anything in section 17B, the Commissioner may refuse to register an applicant under that section if the Commissioner is satisfied that a relevant person has done or omitted to do any thing or engaged in any conduct that renders the applicant unfit to be registered.

        (2)         Despite anything in section 19(3), the Commissioner may refuse to renew the registration of a car market operator if the Commissioner is satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1).

        (3)         Subsections (1) and (2) are permissive only and do not impose a duty on the Commissioner to make enquiries concerning a relevant person.

        (4)         In this section —

        relevant person

            (a)         means the applicant, where a person, not being a body corporate, has applied under section 17B(1) or 19(3), as the case may be; and

            (b)         means any person —

                  (i)         by which the firm is constituted; or

                  (ii)         who is concerned in the management or conduct of a body corporate by which the firm is constituted,

                where persons constituting a firm have applied under section 17B(2) or 19(3), as the case may be; and

            (c)         means any person concerned in the management or conduct of the body corporate where a body corporate has applied under section 17B(3) or 19(3), as the case may be.

        [Section 17C inserted: No. 4 of 2002 s. 11; amended: No. 58 of 2010 s. 50.]



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