Motor Car Traders Act 1986

The Registrar must keep a register of licensed motor car traders open for public inspection in the form determined by the Registrar.

A person, on application in accordance with the regulations (if any) and on payment of the prescribed fee (if any)—

may inspect the Register of Motor Car Traders; and

may make a copy of, or take extracts from, the register.

The purposes of the register are—

to enable members of the public to have access to information about licensees; and

to record the name of any person, partnership or body corporate declared ineligible to be a licensee or director of, partner of or person concerned in the management of a motor car trader or any person declared ineligible to be employed in a customer service capacity by a motor car trader.

The register must include details of the following in relation to each licensed motor car trader—

licence number issued by the Authority;

name of licensee;

date licence granted;

date licence surrendered, cancelled or suspended;

licence conditions;

details of any Tribunal or court orders concerning the licensee affecting the licence and of which the Registrar has notice;

details of any claims allowed by the Fund (or any like fund established under a previous enactment) in relation to a licensee and of which the Registrar has notice;

business names under which a licensee is authorised to operate, including the date of commencement and cessation of operating under those names;

business addresses and telephone numbers of any premises from which a motor car trading business is conducted, including the date of commencement and cessation of business at those premises;

if the licensee is a corporation—

the names of the directors;

the date of appointment of each director;

the date of cessation of appointment of each director;

if the licensee is a partnership—

the names of the partners;

the date each person became a partner;

the date a partner ceased to be a partner;

Australian Business Number (if any) issued under the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth;

Internet site address maintained by the licensee for the purposes of a motor car trader's business (if any).

The register must also contain details of—

all permission determinations made under sections 29A, 29B and 29C;

all applications for a licence refused by the Authority during the last two years;

any other information prescribed by the regulations as forming part of the register.

Subject to the Public Records Act 1973, the Registrar may, if in his or her opinion it is no longer necessary or desirable to retain it, remove any information from the register 12 years after the information was added to the register.

In the exercise and performance of his or her duties under this section, the Registrar must act on any information which appears to the Registrar sufficient in each case.