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Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Enforcement - Offences - Offences relating to banned persons

98: Offence to employ or engage banned persons

You could also call this:

"It's against the law to hire someone banned from selling cars"

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You commit an offence if you employ or keep employing a banned person in a job that involves buying or selling motor vehicles. You can defend yourself if you can prove you took all reasonable steps to ensure you only employed people who are not banned under section 68 or section 69 from participating in the business. The penalty for this offence is outlined in section 117.

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Part 4Enforcement
Offences: Offences relating to banned persons

98Offence to employ or engage banned persons

  1. A person commits an offence if the person employs or engages, or continues to employ or engage, a banned person in any capacity that involves participation in the business of motor vehicle trading.

  2. It is a defence to a charge of an offence against this section to prove that the defendant took all reasonable steps to ensure that only persons who are not banned under section 68 or section 69 from participating in the business of motor vehicle trading are employed or engaged by the defendant.

  3. The penalty on conviction for an offence against this section is set out in section 117.