44Period of statutory or other warranty

44 Period of statutory or other warranty

(1)  In this section –

purchaser includes, if a finance agreement is made on the sale or exchange of a motor vehicle, a person who is entitled to the use of the motor vehicle.

(2)  A statutory warranty takes effect on the day on which the purchaser of the warrantied vehicle takes delivery of it.

(3)  A statutory warranty ceases to have effect when whichever of the following first occurs:

(a) the expiration of the period of 3 months commencing on the delivery of the warrantied vehicle to the purchaser;

(b) the warrantied vehicle travels 3 000 kilometres after being delivered to the purchaser;

(c) the warrantied vehicle is used after delivery to the purchaser for rally driving or motor racing;

(d) the warrantied vehicle is used after delivery to the purchaser as a taxi or hire vehicle;

(e) the warrantied vehicle is repossessed by a person who provided finance to the purchaser under a finance agreement;

(f) the purchaser sells the warrantied vehicle to another person;

(g) after delivery of the warrantied vehicle to the purchaser, the odometer reading of the warrantied vehicle is altered.

(4)  If a licensed motor vehicle trader gives a warranty in addition to the statutory warranty –

(a) that additional warranty takes effect and ceases to have effect as specified in it; or

(b) if that additional warranty does not specify when it takes effect or ceases to have effect, it takes effect or ceases to have effect as specified in subsection (2) or (3) as if it were a statutory warranty.