Owner of vehicle
5 Owner of vehicle
In a road law —
owner, in relation to a vehicle, means —
the person who is entitled to the immediate possession of the vehicle; or
if there are several persons entitled to its immediate possession, the person whose entitlement is paramount,
but if one of 2 or more persons fitting that description has been nominated for the purposes of subsection (2) it means only the person nominated.
If a vehicle is owned by more than one person and one of those persons is nominated by all such persons, by notice in writing given to the CEO, then for the purposes of a road law, the nominated person is to be taken to be the owner of the vehicle.
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