Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT 1936 (REPEALED) - SECT 108G

(1)     Where—

        (a)     a notice under section 108B or subsection 108E (2) is in force in relation to a vehicle; and

        (b)     the time within which the owner of the vehicle is required by that notice to produce the vehicle for examination has expired,

a person who drives or uses the vehicle upon a public street or a public place is guilty of an offence.

(2)     A person who drives or uses upon a public street or a public place a vehicle in respect of which a notice under section 108C or subsection 108E (4) is in force is guilty of an offence.

(3)     It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) or (2) for the defendant to prove—

        (a)     that he or she did not know, and had no reasonable means of knowing, that a notice under section 108B, 108C or 108E, as the case may be, had been served upon the owner of the vehicle concerned; or

        (b)     that the driving or use of the vehicle was reasonably necessary in connection with the production of the vehicle in accordance with the notice or the repair of the vehicle.

(4)     A person who, while a notice under section 108B, 108C or 108E is in force in respect of a vehicle, removes from that vehicle, or alters or defaces, a label affixed to the vehicle in accordance with section 108F is guilty of an offence.