Motor Car Traders Act 1986

For the purpose of monitoring compliance with this Act or the regulations, an inspector may require a licensed motor car trader or a specified person at a time and place specified by the inspector—

to answer orally or in writing any questions put by the inspector relating to the licensed motor car trader's business as a motor car trader;

to supply orally or in writing information required by the inspector relating to that business;

to produce to the inspector specified documents or documents of a specified class relating to that business.

Without limiting subsection (1), if a document required to be produced under subsection (1)(c) is, or is part of, a dealings book kept under section 35 in an electronically readable form, the inspector may require the document to be provided in a readily accessible form—

electronically; or

in a paper form produced by a computer.

If a person produces a document referred to in subsection (1A), the person must also provide the inspector with a prescribed statement verifying that the document provided is a true record of the dealings book at the date of the statement.

In this section—

a person whose licence has been surrendered or cancelled within the last 3 years; or

a person who is a director or officer of a corporation which is a licensed motor car trader; or

if the licence of a corporation has been surrendered or cancelled within the last 3 years, a person who was a director or officer of the corporation at the time the licence was surrendered or cancelled; or

a person who under section 33 is carrying on the business of a licensed motor car trader.