Second-Hand Vehicle Dealers Act 1995

For the purposes of this Act—

if a person buys or offers to buy, or sells or offers for sale, at least 4 second‑hand vehicles during a period of 12 months, the person will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to have been a dealer during that period; and

if a person and 1 other person who is a close associate of the person buy or offer to buy, or sell or offer for sale, an aggregate of at least 6 second‑hand vehicles during a period of 12 months, the person and that close associate will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, both be presumed to have been dealers during that period; and

if the registration of a second‑hand vehicle is transferred from 1 person to another—

the transferor will be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have sold the vehicle to the transferee; and

the transferee will be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have bought the vehicle from the transferor.

In any proceedings, an apparently genuine document purporting to be a certificate of the Commissioner certifying—

that a person was or was not licensed as a dealer on a specified date; or

that premises were or were not notified premises on a specified date, constitutes proof of the matters so certified in the absence of proof to the contrary.