(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.]