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Motor Vehicle Standards Regulations 1989
57Conditions of a RAW approval
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#### 57 Conditions of a RAW approval
The following are conditions of a RAW approval:
(a) that the registered automotive workshop allows the Minister access to the workshop premises (including its main office) at any reasonable time and on reasonable notice for the purposes of audit, inspection and the testing of vehicles;
(b) that if the main office is not at the workshop, the registered automotive workshop allows the Minister access to the main office premises at any reasonable time and on reasonable notice for the purposes of an audit relating to the RAW approval;
(c) that the registered automotive workshop ensures, as far as possible, that persons and organisations that provide goods or services to the workshop for the purposes of vehicle modification allow the Minister to have access to their premises for the purposes of audit, inspection and the testing of vehicles in relation to the activities of the workshop;
(d) that the registered automotive workshop gives to the Minister, on written request and within the reasonable time specified in the request, any information that the Minister reasonably requires for the purposes of deciding whether the workshop is complying with the Act, these Regulations and the conditions of its RAW approval;
(e) that the registered automotive workshop tells the Minister, in writing, of any change in information held by the Minister about it within 30 days of the change, including, in particular:
(i) changes in key personnel of the workshop; or
(ii) significant changes in the control of the workshop;
(f) that the registered automotive workshop retains for at least 10 years all information relating to the purchase, import, modification, testing, inspection, and supply to the market (including, in particular, the information produced to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of guidelines determined under subsection 13D(3) of the Act) of a vehicle on which the workshop has placed a used import plate;
(g) that if the registered automotive workshop ceases to operate as a registered automotive workshop, the workshop tells the Minister in writing as soon as practicable;
(h) that to every vehicle on which the registered automotive workshop places a used import plate, it attaches a consumer information notice in accordance with regulation 58;
(i) that the registered automotive workshop must not place a used import plate on a vehicle whose structural integrity has ever been reduced by corrosion or crash damage;
(j) that before beginning modification of a vehicle the registered automotive workshop inspects it for crash damage, corrosion, and repair of crash damage or corrosion;
(k) that if a vehicle’s structural integrity has been reduced by crash damage or corrosion, the registered automotive workshop exports or destroys the vehicle;
(l) that vehicle inspections for the purposes of these Regulations (other than inspections carried out on behalf of the Minister) are carried out only by a vehicle inspection signatory of the registered automotive workshop;
(m) that with the following exceptions all assembly operations on a vehicle on which a used import plate will be placed are carried out by directors or employees of the registered automotive workshop:
(i) tyre removal and fitting;
(ii) exhaust system replacement;
(iii) replacement of glazing.