30Lost, stolen or destroyed number-plates

30 Lost, stolen or destroyed number-plates

30 Lost, stolen or destroyed number-plates

(cf 2007 reg cl 27)

(1) If any vehicle number-plate is lost, stolen or destroyed, a plate holder must, as soon as is practicable after discovering the loss, theft or destruction—

(a) notify Transport for NSW in writing of the loss, theft or destruction, and

(b) deliver to Transport for NSW any other number-plate with the same number unless it too is lost, stolen or destroyed.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) If an auxiliary number-plate is lost, stolen or destroyed, the plate holder must, as soon as practicable after discovering the loss, theft or destruction, notify Transport for NSW in writing accordingly.

(3) Transport for NSW may request any such plate holder—

(a) to forward evidence, in a form acceptable to Transport for NSW, verifying the loss, theft or destruction of the number-plate and stating the circumstances connected with it, and

(b) if a vehicle number-plate is lost, stolen or destroyed—to pay any applicable fee for replacing a lost, stolen or destroyed number-plate.

(4) Transport for NSW may issue a new number-plate under clause 28 to replace a number-plate that is lost, stolen or destroyed.

(5) When Transport for NSW issues a new number-plate to replace a number-plate that is lost, stolen or destroyed, the new number plate must—

(a) in the case of a vehicle number-plate—have a distinguishing number that is different from that of the number-plate it replaces, or

(b) in the case of an auxiliary number-plate—have the same number as the number-plate it replaces,

unless Transport for NSW otherwise approves in a particular case.