Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) The Director
General or a council shall serve on the owner of a vehicle ordered to be
detained under section 42(1) at his last known address notice in writing
advising him that he is entitled to claim that vehicle when the period of
detention thereof expires.
(2) When the Director
General or a council is empowered by section 42(2) to dispose of or sell
a vehicle referred to in subregulation (1), the Director General or the
council may cause that vehicle to be offered for sale by public auction or by
public tender and may thereupon accept the best offer made for the purchase of
that vehicle.
(3) If an offer for
the purchase of a vehicle offered for sale under subregulation (2) is not
made at the time of public auction of that vehicle or within a reasonable time
after the making of that offer for sale by public tender, as the case may be,
the Director General or council may cause the vehicle to be —
(a) sold
by private treaty; or
(b)
disposed of, otherwise than by sale, as economically as possible.
[Regulation 19 amended in Gazette
2 February 1982 p.395; 31 January 1997 p.673.]