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Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000
sec.776Duties of police officer after impounding or seizing motor vehicle
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### sec.776 Duties of police officer after impounding or seizing motor vehicle
After impounding a motor vehicle under an impounding order or taking possession of a motor vehicle under a forfeiture order, a police officer must move the motor vehicle, or arrange for the motor vehicle to be moved, to a holding yard in the way the police officer considers appropriate.
If the motor vehicle is impounded, the police officer must give the owner of the motor vehicle a notice stating—
how the owner of the motor vehicle may recover the motor vehicle; and
that, before the motor vehicle may be recovered, the owner may be required to produce satisfactory evidence of ownership of the motor vehicle; and
that if the owner was the driver of the motor vehicle when the offence for which the motor vehicle was impounded happened, the owner will be required to pay the costs of removing and keeping the motor vehicle; and
that if the owner was not the driver of the motor vehicle when the offence for which the motor vehicle was impounded happened, the driver will be required to pay the costs of removing and keeping the motor vehicle; and
the penalty for unlawfully removing the motor vehicle from the place where it is held.
s 776 ins 2006 No. 26 s 79
(sec.776-ssec.1) After impounding a motor vehicle under an impounding order or taking possession of a motor vehicle under a forfeiture order, a police officer must move the motor vehicle, or arrange for the motor vehicle to be moved, to a holding yard in the way the police officer considers appropriate.
(sec.776-ssec.2) If the motor vehicle is impounded, the police officer must give the owner of the motor vehicle a notice stating— how the owner of the motor vehicle may recover the motor vehicle; and that, before the motor vehicle may be recovered, the owner may be required to produce satisfactory evidence of ownership of the motor vehicle; and that if the owner was the driver of the motor vehicle when the offence for which the motor vehicle was impounded happened, the owner will be required to pay the costs of removing and keeping the motor vehicle; and that if the owner was not the driver of the motor vehicle when the offence for which the motor vehicle was impounded happened, the driver will be required to pay the costs of removing and keeping the motor vehicle; and the penalty for unlawfully removing the motor vehicle from the place where it is held.
- (a) how the owner of the motor vehicle may recover the motor vehicle; and
- (b) that, before the motor vehicle may be recovered, the owner may be required to produce satisfactory evidence of ownership of the motor vehicle; and
- (c) that if the owner was the driver of the motor vehicle when the offence for which the motor vehicle was impounded happened, the owner will be required to pay the costs of removing and keeping the motor vehicle; and
- (d) that if the owner was not the driver of the motor vehicle when the offence for which the motor vehicle was impounded happened, the driver will be required to pay the costs of removing and keeping the motor vehicle; and
- (e) the penalty for unlawfully removing the motor vehicle from the place where it is held.