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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Discipline and offences - Offences

125A: Offences relating to regulating self-contained motor vehicles

You could also call this:

"Breaking rules about certificates for motor homes and caravans"

Illustration for Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

You can commit an offence if you issue a certificate of self-containment or a warrant card without proper authority. You can also commit an offence if you pretend to be a self-containment certification authority when you are not. If you do these things, you can be fined up to $10,000. You can commit another offence if you stop an authorised person from doing their job under section 87M. If you are an individual and you commit this offence, you can be fined up to $50,000. If you are a body corporate and you commit this offence, you can be fined up to $250,000. If you commit an offence, you will be punished according to the law. You must follow the rules and not try to pretend to be someone you are not. You must also let authorised people do their jobs.

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Part 3Discipline and offences
Offences

125AOffences relating to regulating self-contained motor vehicles

  1. A person commits an offence if the person, knowing that they are acting without proper authority, issues any of the following:

  2. a certificate of self-containment:
    1. a warrant card.

      1. A person commits an offence if the person, knowing that they are acting without proper authority, falsely represents, expressly or by implication, that the person is a self-containment certification authority when the person is not.

      2. A person commits an offence if the person intentionally obstructs any authorised person in the exercise of any powers conferred by or under section 87M.

      3. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) or (2) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

      4. A person who commits an offence against subsection (3) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 in the case of an individual, or $250,000 in the case of a body corporate.

      Notes
      • Section 125A: inserted, on , by section 50 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).