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MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ACT 1973 - SECT 40B

40B .         Title of and defects in second-hand vehicle, notice about to be displayed on

        (1)         A car market operator contravenes this section if a second-hand vehicle is offered, exposed or displayed for sale in the course of a car market conducted at premises provided by him unless there is attached to the vehicle in the manner specified in subsection (2) a notice in the prescribed form containing statements —

            (a)         to the effect that the title to the vehicle is either —

                  (i)         guaranteed by the car market operator; or

                  (ii)         not guaranteed by the car market operator;

                and

            (b)         to the effect that the sale of the vehicle does not create any obligation under section 34.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), the notice shall —

            (a)         except as provided in paragraph (b), be placed inside the vehicle where it can be clearly read through the windscreen; and

            (b)         where the vehicle is a motor cycle or is a vehicle not equipped with a windscreen, be attached to the vehicle in such a way and place as to cause the particulars contained in the notice to be clearly visible to a person standing near the vehicle.

        [Section 40B inserted: No. 87 of 1981 s. 15; amended: No. 4 of 2002 s. 45.]



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