You are not allowed to change the distance recorder on a motor vehicle or make changes to the vehicle itself if you want to make it look like the vehicle has travelled a different distance than it actually has. This means you can’t mess with the odometer or do anything else to the vehicle that would make it show a false reading of how far it has gone. It’s important to keep the distance recorder accurate and honest.
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16B: Interference with operation of speed measuring devices, or
"Don't mess with speed cameras or have anything that stops them working"
18: Health practitioners to give Director medical reports of persons unfit to drive, or
"Doctors must tell the road safety boss if someone isn't safe to drive"
A person may not, with intent to cause a false record of the distance travelled by a motor vehicle to be shown or recorded, make or cause to be made any alteration to the distance recorder or to the vehicle.
