151Provisions concerning damaged vehicle storage

151 Provisions concerning damaged vehicle storage

S. 151(1) amended by No. 40/2011 s. 10.

(1) If an accident damaged motor vehicle is being stored in accordance with section 150, the holder of the tow truck licence—

(a) must, within 10 business days after the day the vehicle is towed to the place specified in the authority to tow, give the owner of the vehicle a written notice stating the amount of the storage charges that are owing at the date of the notice, the daily rate at which the charges are continuing to accumulate and the fact that those charges are continuing to accumulate; and

(b) must give the owner of the vehicle such a notice before the expiry of each period of 20 business days after the date of the issue of the first notice.

(2) The obligation imposed on the holder of the tow truck licence by subsection (1) ceases to apply as soon as—

(a) the vehicle is removed from the place specified in the authority to tow or in accordance with section 150; or

(b) an agreement for the repair of the vehicle is signed with a person who carries on a repair business at or from the place specified in the authority to tow if the agreement sets out the amount of the storage charges that are owed at the time that the agreement is signed.

S. 152 repealed by No. 40/2011 s. 11.

Division 4—Obligations on repairers