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Land Transport Act 1998

Primary responsibilities of participants in land transport system - Responsibilities of drivers and other road users concerning enforcement officers

13: Drivers and other road users to comply with directions of enforcement officers, etc

You could also call this:

"Follow road rules and obey police and enforcement officers"

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You must follow the rules of the road and obey enforcement officers. If your vehicle has a warning notice on it from section 22AF, you must do what the notice says. You have to follow the instructions of enforcement officers when they are doing their job. You must comply with the rules about breath tests, blood tests, and other tests that check if you are safe to drive. These tests are in sections 68, 69, 70, 71A, 71B, 71C, 71DE, 71E, 71F, 72, and 73. You cannot remove a notice from your vehicle unless you have done what the notice says you must do. You also cannot drive your vehicle if it has a notice on it that says you cannot drive it until you have done something, like getting your vehicle checked. You must do what enforcement officers tell you to do, and follow all the rules of the road.

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Part 2Primary responsibilities of participants in land transport system
Responsibilities of drivers and other road users concerning enforcement officers

13Drivers and other road users to comply with directions of enforcement officers, etc

  1. A person driving a motor vehicle that has a warning notice given under section 22AF attached to it must comply with that notice.

  2. A person must comply with sections 68, 69, 70, 71A, 71B, 71C, 71DE, 71E, 71F, 72, and 73 (which relate to the administration of breath screening tests, evidential breath tests, oral fluid screening tests, laboratory analysis of oral fluid samples, compulsory impairment tests, and blood tests).

  3. A person must comply with all lawful requirements, directions, and requests made by an enforcement officer under any of sections 68, 69, 70, 71A, 71B, 71C, 71DE, 71E, 71F, 72, and 73.

  4. A person must comply with all lawful requirements and requests made by a health practitioner or medical officer under section 72 or section 73 (which relate to the administration of blood tests).

  5. A person may not—

  6. remove, obscure, or render indistinguishable a notice affixed to a vehicle under section 115, unless current evidence of vehicle inspection has been obtained for the vehicle or (if the notice was given under section 96(1B)) the direction requiring the vehicle not to be driven on a road has been cancelled under section 102(3)(b) or section 110(3)(a)(ii); or
    1. drive a vehicle to which a notice given under section 115 applies until current evidence of vehicle inspection has been obtained for, and is displayed on, the vehicle.

      1. Drivers and other persons must comply with all other lawful requirements, directions, notices, and requests given to, and prohibitions imposed on, them under this Act by an enforcement officer or a dangerous goods enforcement officer.

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      Notes
      • Section 13(1AA): inserted, on , by section 6 of the Land Transport (Enforcement Powers) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 36).
      • Section 13(1AA): amended, on , by section 7 of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).
      • Section 13(1): replaced, on , by section 6 of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 5).
      • Section 13(1): amended, on , by section 6(1)(a) of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 12).
      • Section 13(1): amended, on , by section 6(1)(b) of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 12).
      • Section 13(2): replaced, on , by section 6 of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 5).
      • Section 13(2): amended, on , by section 6(2) of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 12).
      • Section 13(3): amended, on , by section 5 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 77).
      • Section 13(3): amended, on , by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).
      • Section 13(4)(a): amended, on , by section 4 of the Land Transport (Unauthorised Street and Drag Racing) Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 11).