Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Road Safety (General) Regulations 2009 - SECT 69

Information to be provided by registered operator

69. Information to be provided by registered operator



(1) In addition to the name and address of the operator of the vehicle at the
time of the offence (the operator), the registered operator must include the
following information in a statutory declaration made for the purposes of
section 201(5) of the Act-

   (a)  if the vehicle was not physically connected to any other vehicle at
        the time of the offence-

   (i)  a statement setting out by, or under, what or whose authority (whether
        oral or written) the operator had control, use or management of the
        vehicle at the time of the offence; and

   (ii) the address of any premises (other than the address of the operator)
        from which the operator, or a person acting on behalf of the operator,
        had the control, use or management of the vehicle at the time of the
        offence;

   (b)  if the vehicle was part of a group of vehicles that were physically
        connected at the time of the offence-

   (i)  if the vehicle was the towing vehicle, the name and address of
        the operator of every other vehicle forming part of the group at the
        time of the offence; and

   (ii) if the vehicle was a trailer, the name and address of the operator of
        the towing vehicle; and

   (iii) a statement setting out by, or under, what or whose authority
        (whether oral or written) the operator had control, use or management
        of the vehicle at the time of the offence; and

   (iv) the address of any premises (other than the address of the operator)
        from which the operator, or a person acting on behalf of the operator,
        had the control, use or management of the vehicle at the time of the
        offence.

(2) For the purposes of section 201(5) of the Act, the time within which the
statutory declaration must be given to the Corporation is-

   (a)  before, or within 28 days after, the service of a summons in respect
        of the offence; or





   (b)  if an infringement notice was served on the registered operator in
        respect of the offence, before the infringement penalty has been
        lodged with an infringements registrar under Part 4 of the
        Infringements Act 2006.

(3) For the purposes of section 201(5) of the Act, the statutory declaration
must be given to the Corporation by delivering it personally or by post.

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