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Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Motor vehicle trading - Key provisions - Disclosure requirements

14: Particulars about used motor vehicle must be displayed

You could also call this:

"Information about used cars must be clearly displayed when selling"

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When you sell a used car, you must show certain information about it. You must attach a notice to the car with the details listed in section 15(1). This notice must be easy to see. If you sell a car through a car market, you can show the notice online instead. The notice must be easy to find from where the car is being sold and where the sale is completed. Car markets must help sellers follow these rules. But if you are a registered car seller and only selling to other registered sellers or wreckers, you do not have to follow these rules. You can find more information about car market operators in section 6(1).

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Part 2Motor vehicle trading
Key provisions: Disclosure requirements

14Particulars about used motor vehicle must be displayed

  1. A motor vehicle trader who offers or displays a used motor vehicle for sale, or causes or permits a used motor vehicle to be offered or displayed for sale, must ensure that a notice containing the particulars set out in section 15(1) is attached to the vehicle in a prominent position.

  2. If a motor vehicle is offered or displayed for sale by a motor vehicle trader through a car market operator's facility (as referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of car market operator in section 6(1)), the motor vehicle trader complies with the obligation in subsection (1) if the notice is readily accessible (for instance, by a hyperlink) from—

  3. the place where the motor vehicle is offered or displayed for sale; and
    1. the place through which, or by means of which, the contract for sale may be completed.

      1. A car market operator must take reasonable steps to ensure that a motor vehicle trader offering or displaying a used motor vehicle for sale through the car market operator complies with the motor vehicle trader's obligation in subsection (1).

      2. Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if a used motor vehicle is offered or displayed for sale—

      3. by a motor vehicle trader registered under this Act; and
        1. exclusively to other motor vehicle traders registered under this Act, or to licensed car wreckers, or to both.

          Notes
          • Section 14: substituted, on , by section 7 of the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 112).