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Road Transport (General) Act 1999
41Meaning of all reasonable steps—div 3.3A
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41 Meaning of all reasonable steps—div 3.3A
(1) In this division:
all reasonable steps—a corporation that is the registered operator of
a motor vehicle takes all reasonable steps to assist the administering
authority to identify and locate the individual who was in possession
or control of the motor vehicle at the time of a demerit points offence
involving the motor vehicle—
(a) if the corporation gives the administering authority an
infringement notice declaration for the offence within the time
required under division 3.2 (Infringement and reminder notices)
(including any additional time allowed under that division); and
(b) if the administering authority requires an approved form to be
completed in relation to the offence—if the corporation
completes the form properly; and
(c) if the person responds to any correspondence from the
administering authority within 14 days after the correspondence
is served on the person.
Note 2 Infringement notice declaration—see s 21A.
(2) For subsection (1), definition of all reasonable steps, paragraph (b),
an approved form is properly completed by a corporation only if—
(a) if the approved form requires particular information to be
included in the form—the corporation complies with the
requirement; and
(b) the information the corporation includes in the form is accurate;
and
(c) the corporation completes the form in a way that can be
understood by a reasonable person.
Note Under the Legislation Act, s 255 (5), if a form requires any of the
following, substantial compliance with the form is not sufficient and the
form is properly completed only if the requirement is complied with:
(a) the form to be signed;
(b) the form to be prepared in a particular way (for example, on paper
of a particular size or quality or in a particular electronic form);
(c) the form to be completed in a particular way;
(d) particular information to be included in the form, or a particular
document to be attached to or given with the form;
(e) the form, information in the form, or a document attached to or
given with the form, to be verified in a particular way (for example,
by statutory declaration).