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Motor Dealers and Chattel Auctioneers Act 2014
sec.50Offence to sell, lend or borrow licence
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### sec.50 Offence to sell, lend or borrow licence
A licensee must not—
sell, lend or hire out the licensee’s licence to someone else; or
notify or advertise that a licence is available for sale, loan or hire to someone else, whether licensed or not; or
permit or allow someone else to hold out that the person is the holder of the licensee’s licence.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
A person must not buy, borrow or hire a licensee’s licence.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
If a person who is not the holder of an appropriate licence or the licensee’s substitute has the effective or apparent management or control of a licensee’s business, the licensee is taken to have lent, and the person is taken to have borrowed, the licensee’s licence.
(sec.50-ssec.1) A licensee must not— sell, lend or hire out the licensee’s licence to someone else; or notify or advertise that a licence is available for sale, loan or hire to someone else, whether licensed or not; or permit or allow someone else to hold out that the person is the holder of the licensee’s licence. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(sec.50-ssec.2) A person must not buy, borrow or hire a licensee’s licence. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(sec.50-ssec.3) If a person who is not the holder of an appropriate licence or the licensee’s substitute has the effective or apparent management or control of a licensee’s business, the licensee is taken to have lent, and the person is taken to have borrowed, the licensee’s licence.
- (a) sell, lend or hire out the licensee’s licence to someone else; or
- (b) notify or advertise that a licence is available for sale, loan or hire to someone else, whether licensed or not; or
- (c) permit or allow someone else to hold out that the person is the holder of the licensee’s licence.