Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990

(1) A person who disposes of a motor vehicle to a licensed dealer in circumstances such that the dealer is required by section 158(1)(a) to enter particulars concerning the vehicle in a dealings register must, at the request of the dealer, supply the dealer with the prescribed information in respect of the vehicle so far as known to the person.

(2) The prescribed information is the information required by the form approved for this section, and the person required to supply it must, if requested by the dealer, provide the information by completing and signing the approved form.

(b) in purported compliance with such a request, gives information which the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular;

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.

If the offender is a body corporate – 500 penalty units.