35Conditions of use of trader's plates

35 Conditions of use of trader's plates (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (4), a trader's plate may be used on a motor vehicle which is standing or being driven upon a public street only where: (a) the vehicle is in the possession or custody of the trader to whom the plate has been issued or transferred or his employee for manufacture, repair, painting, sale or exchange or delivery to another trader, purchaser or owner; (b) the vehicle is being used bona fide for a purpose connected with the manufacture, repair, painting, testing, demonstration, sale or exchange of the vehicle or its delivery to another trader, purchaser or owner;

Motor Vehicles Act 1949 55 (c) any person in or upon the vehicle is being carried otherwise than for hire or any consideration and is bona fide interested in, or employed for, a purpose mentioned in paragraph (b); (d) any loading in or upon the vehicle is being conveyed solely for the purpose of demonstrating the mass-carrying capacity of the vehicle to a bona fide prospective purchaser; (e) in the case of a towing vehicle owned by the trader, the vehicle is being used by the trader or his employee for the purpose of proceeding to and towing any disabled motor vehicle; and (f) the driver or person in charge of the vehicle is: (i) the trader or an employee of the trader; (ii) a prospective purchaser of the vehicle or his employee or agent who is accompanied by the trader or an employee of the trader; or (iii) a prospective purchaser of the vehicle or his employee or agent where the trader is licensed as a motor vehicle dealer under the Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990. (2) A trader referred to in subsection (1)(f)(iii) shall not permit a prospective purchaser of a vehicle referred to in that subsection to drive the vehicle except where, in addition to any other information required to be kept by any other law in force in the Territory, the name, the driver's licence number, address and signature of the prospective purchaser has been recorded in a register kept by the trader for that purpose. (3) A trader referred to in subsection (1)(f)(iii) shall, on demand at any reasonable time, produce the register required to be kept under subsection (2) for inspection by the Registrar, an inspector or member of the Police Force. (4) The Registrar may, in his discretion, upon such conditions as he (5) Where a motor vehicle bears a trader's plate in any of the circumstances specified in this section, the person driving the vehicle shall be deemed not to contravene section 33, 33A or 34 of the Traffic Act 1987.

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