Road Transport Act 2013

The police officer may do any one or more of the following—

seize and take charge of the motor vehicle and cause it to be moved to a place determined by the Commissioner of Police,

immediately, or as soon as practicable afterwards, give or send the offending operator a notice (a motor vehicle production notice) requiring the offending operator to move or cause the vehicle to be moved to, or to produce or cause to be produced to a police officer at, a place specified in the notice no later than on the date and time specified in the notice (the motor vehicle production date),

remove and confiscate the number-plates affixed to the motor vehicle and attach a number-plate confiscation notice to the motor vehicle,

immediately or as soon as practicable afterwards—

give the offending operator a notice (a number-plate production notice) requiring the offending operator to remove or cause to be removed the number-plates affixed to the vehicle and produce them to a police officer at a place specified in the notice no later than on the date and time specified in the notice (the number-plate production date), and

attach a number-plate confiscation notice to the motor vehicle,

as soon as practicable afterwards, send to the offending operator at the garage address of the motor vehicle—

a notice (a number-plate production notice) requiring the offending operator to remove or cause to be removed the number-plates affixed to the vehicle and produce them to a police officer at a place specified in the notice no later than on the date and time specified in the notice (the number-plate production date), and

a number-plate confiscation notice.

An offending operator who is sent a number-plate confiscation notice under subsection (1)(e) must attach the number-plate confiscation notice to the motor vehicle in the manner described on the notice no later than on the number-plate production date.

Except as provided by this Part, a motor vehicle to which a number-plate confiscation notice is attached under—

subsection (1)(c) is prohibited from being operated on any road during the period of 3 months commencing on the day the notice is attached to the vehicle, and

subsection (1)(d) or (e) is prohibited from being operated on any road during the period of 3 months commencing from the number-plate production date.

A reference in subsection (3) to 3 months is to be construed as a reference to 6 months if the offending operator is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver licence and the sanction was imposed in respect of a sanctionable offence committed by the offending operator.