3ARepairable and statutory write-offs

3A Repairable and statutory write-offs

[Section 3A Inserted by No. 29 of 2002, s. 5, Applied:21 Oct 2002]

(1)  In this Act –

repairable write-off means a vehicle that is not a statutory write-off but has been assessed by a prescribed person in Tasmania, another State or a Territory as a total loss;

[Section 3A Subsection (1) amended by No. 17 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:20 Jun 2013]

[Section 3A Subsection (1) amended by No. 17 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:20 Jun 2013] statutory write-off means a vehicle that –

(a) has been assessed by a prescribed person in Tasmania, another State or a Territory as a total loss; and

(b) has been assessed by a prescribed person in Tasmania, another State or a Territory as only suitable for dismantling and processing as scrap; and

(c) has been assessed and classified, or deemed, to be a statutory write-off in accordance with the Technical Guide by a prescribed person in Tasmania, another State or a Territory;

[Section 3A Subsection (1) amended by No. 17 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:20 Jun 2013] Technical Guide means the Damage Assessment Criteria for the Classification of Statutory Write-Offs approved by Austroads Ltd (ABN 16 245 787 323) on 25 May 2011, as amended or substituted from time to time.

(2)  [Section 3A Subsection (2) amended by No. 17 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:20 Jun 2013] Despite subsection (1) , a vehicle is only a repairable write-off if the vehicle is assessed as a total loss not later than the end of the month which is the fifteenth anniversary of its date of manufacture, within the meaning of the relevant ADR.

(3)  [Section 3A Subsection (3) inserted by No. 17 of 2013, s. 4, Applied:20 Jun 2013] For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that if a damaged vehicle has been assessed as a repairable write-off before the commencement of the  –