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Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990
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159 Seller to supply information to dealer
(1) A person who disposes of a motor vehicle to a licensed dealer in
circumstances such that the dealer is required by section 158(1)(a)
to enter particulars concerning the vehicle in a dealings register
must, at the request of the dealer, supply the dealer with the
prescribed information in respect of the vehicle so far as known to
the person.
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(2) The prescribed information is the information required by the form
approved for this section, and the person required to supply it must,
if requested by the dealer, provide the information by completing
and signing the approved form.
(3) A person who:
(a) fails to comply with a request under subsection (1) or (2); or
(b) in purported compliance with such a request, gives information
which the person knows to be false or misleading in a material