Div 7Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles

Division 7—Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles 44—Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles (1) If an alteration or addition prescribed by the regulations is made to a motor vehicle during the period for which it is registered, the Registrar must, within 14 days after the making of the alteration or addition, be given written notice containing particulars of the alteration or addition. (1a) The Registrar may require a person who gives notice under subsection (1) to provide satisfactory evidence by statutory declaration or other means to verify the information disclosed in the notice. (3) If a motor vehicle is altered or added to during the period for which it is registered and the alteration or addition is such that, if it had been made before the registration, the fee for that registration would have been more than the amount paid, the Registrar must, within 28 days after the making of the alteration or addition, be paid as an additional fee the amount that bears to the difference the same proportion as the number of months in the unexpired period of the registration (portion of a month being treated as a month) bears to the number of months in the period of registration. (3a) In calculating an additional fee payable under this section, any amount of cents not exceeding five cents will be excluded and any amount of cents exceeding five cents will be counted as ten cents. (3b) Despite subsections (3) and (3a), the regulations may, for cases of a prescribed kind, provide a different method for calculating an additional fee payable under subsection (3). (4) If a requirement of subsection (1) or (3) is not complied with, the registered owner and the registered operator of the vehicle are each guilty of an offence. (4a) If a person does not comply with a requirement made of the person under subsection (1a), the person is guilty of an offence. (5) In proceedings for an offence against this section, the court may, in addition to imposing a fine, order the defendant to pay to the Registrar any additional fee for which the defendant is liable under subsection (3). alteration, in relation to a vehicle, includes the wrecking of the vehicle or the disassembling of the vehicle or part of the vehicle for salvage. 45—Refund where vehicle altered If a motor vehicle is altered during the period for which it was registered and the alteration is such that, if it had been made before the registration, the fee for that registration would have been less than the amount paid, the Registrar has a discretion to refund to the registered owner or the registered operator of the vehicle such part of the registration fee as the Registrar thinks just in the circumstances.