(1) Every dealer, not
being a financier or car hire operator, shall keep or cause to be kept a
register, in the prescribed form, at any authorised premises in respect of
which the licence is issued; and shall record or cause to be recorded in that
register the prescribed particulars of every transaction entered into, in the
course of dealing at those premises.
(1a) Where a financier
or car hire operator carries on the business of selling vehicles to persons
other than persons who become trade owners the financier or car hire operator
shall, at the place at which he carries on that business, keep or cause to be
kept a register in the form referred to in subsection (1) and shall record or
enter therein such particulars as are required to be recorded or entered
pursuant to that subsection.
(2) A dealer, yard
manager, financier or car hire operator shall produce the register kept
pursuant to subsection (1) or (1a), as the case requires, for inspection, on
demand, by any authorised officer, any member of the Police Force, or by a
traffic inspector duly appointed for the district wherein the premises are
situated.
(2a) A person who is
registered as a car market operator shall keep or cause to be kept a register,
in the prescribed form, for any premises authorised under section 21A in
relation to that registration, and shall record or cause to be recorded in
that register the prescribed particulars of —
(a)
every vehicle offered, exposed or displayed for sale at the premises in the
course of a car market conducted at the premises pursuant to the registration;
and
(b)
where he is notified under subsection (2e) of the sale at the premises of a
vehicle referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection, that sale.
(2b) A car market
operator shall produce the register kept pursuant to subsection (2a) for
inspection, on demand, by any authorised officer or any member of the Police
Force.
(2c) Subsection
(2a)(a) shall be complied with in relation to a vehicle before the vehicle is
offered, exposed or displayed for sale.
(2d) Subsection
(2a)(b) shall be complied with in relation to a vehicle forthwith after
notification of the sale of the vehicle is given under subsection (2e).
(2e) Where a car
market is being conducted by a person who is registered as a car market
operator at premises authorised under section 21A in relation to that
registration a person who sells a vehicle at the premises shall, forthwith
after he sells the vehicle, notify the car market operator of the sale.
Penalty: $1 000.
(3) A person shall not
knowingly —
(a) make
a false entry; or
(b)
cause a false entry to be made,
in any register kept
for the purposes of this section.
Penalty applicable to subsections (1), (1a), (2),
(2a), (2b) and (3): $5 000.
[Section 25 amended: No. 58 of 1974 s. 21; No. 49
of 1979 s. 10; No. 87 of 1981 s. 13; No. 106 of 1981 s. 15; No. 68 of 1982
s. 2; No. 4 of 2002 s. 24, 32(1) and 39.]