Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04945:front:0:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04945
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component does not comply; and

    (d) the conditions to be met; and

    (e) the reasons for the imposition of those conditions.

"(3) An approval given under subsection 10A(1), (2) or (3) must specify the subsection under which the approval was given and that the approval is a matter of public record.

"(4) An identification plate placed on a road vehicle or a vehicle component by virtue of an approval given under subsection 10A(3) must specify that:

    (a) the vehicle is the nonstandard vehicle; and

    (b) use of the vehicle may be subject to conditions, including conditions stated on the plate.".

15. Section 11:

    (a) Omit "a compliance" (wherever occurring), substitute "an identification".

    (b) Omit "compliance plates" (wherever occurring), substitute "identification plates".

16. Section 12:

    Repeal the section, substitute:

Offences in relation to identification plates

"12. It is an offence for a person:

    (a) knowingly or recklessly to provide false or misleading information in an application for an authority to place an identification plate on a road vehicle or a vehicle component; or

    (b) knowingly or recklessly to manufacture or supply, without authority, a device purporting to be an identification plate; or

    (c) to place a device purporting to be an identification plate on a road vehicle or a vehicle component knowing the device is not such a plate or reckless as to whether it is such a plate or not; or

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       (d) knowingly or recklessly to place an identification plate on a road vehicle or a vehicle component in relation to which no authority for the placement of that plate has been given; or

       (e) to place an identification plate on a road vehicle or a vehicle component in circumstances that, to the knowledge of the person, breaches the conditions for the placement of the plate fixed under subsection 10A(4).

Penalty: 120 penalty units.".

17. Section 13:

  (a) Omit "a compliance", substitute "an identification".

  (b) Insert "procedures and" before "arrangements".

  (c) Omit "under the regulations", substitute "determined under section 10".

18. After section 13:

Insert:

Vehicles not to be made nonstandard

"13A.(1) Subject to subsection (3), a person must not knowingly or recklessly modify a standard vehicle in a way that makes it nonstandard.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

"(2) Subject to subsection (3), a person must not knowingly or recklessly hand over a standard vehicle to a person for modification, whether by that person or otherwise, in a way that makes it nonstandard.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

"(3) A person may modify a standard vehicle in a way that makes it nonstandard, or hand over a new vehicle for such modification:

  (a) in prescribed circumstances; or

  (b) with the written approval of the Minister.

"(4) An approval given