Motor Vehicle Traders Regulations 2022 (Tas)

Motor Vehicle Traders Regulations 2022

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Motor Vehicle Traders Act 2011 .

28 February 2022

B. BAKER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

ELISE ARCHER

Minister for Workplace Safety and Consumer Affairs

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Traders Regulations 2022 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on 28 February 2022.

3. Interpretation In these regulations – Act means the Motor Vehicle Traders Act 2011 .

4. Exemption for the Public Trustee The Public Trustee, within the meaning of the Public Trustee Act 1930 , is exempt from the operation of section 6 of the Act.

5. Exemption for fleet vehicles (1) In this regulation – prescribed business means a business other than – (a) the business of dealing in motor vehicles; or (b) the business of renting or hiring out motor vehicles to customers of the business. (2) The owner of a prescribed business is exempt from the operation of section 6 of the Act, in relation to the buying, selling or exchange of motor vehicles, if the owner – (a) buys or exchanges the motor vehicles for the purpose of forming, or maintaining, a fleet of vehicles used, or to be used, for the purposes of the prescribed business; or (b) sells or exchanges a motor vehicle that was part of such a fleet of vehicles for the purpose of – (i) renewing, reorganising or rationalising the fleet of vehicles; or (ii) winding up the prescribed business.

6. Exemption for wholesale motor vehicle dealers A person who sells, or exchanges, motor vehicles on a wholesale basis is exempt from the operation of section 6 of the Act in relation to those sales and exchanges.