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Land Transport Act 1998

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If you use a traction engine, you need to follow certain rules to keep everyone safe. You can get in trouble if you:

Use a traction engine without the right qualifications. These qualifications are set out in the rules to make sure you can use the engine safely in public.
Use a traction engine in public in a way that could be dangerous to you or other people.
Use a traction engine in public without showing that it has been properly checked and is safe to use. You need to display the right documents that prove this.
Don’t follow the rules about having and showing the right documents for your traction engine, or about how to use it properly.

If you break these rules, you might have to pay a fine of up to $5,000.

In this case, a ‘public place’ means the same thing as it does in section 22B(3) of the law.

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36AB: Contravention of sections 7 and 114, or

"This rule about breaking certain driving laws was removed"

37: Contravention of section 8, or

"Breaking the law by driving carelessly or not thinking of others on the road"

A person commits an offence if the person—
uses a traction engine without an appropriate qualification provided for in the regulations or the rules, for the purpose of qualifying the person to safely use the traction engine in a public place; or
uses a traction engine in a public place in a manner that, having regard to all the circumstances, is or might be dangerous to the public or to a person; or
uses a traction engine in a public place without displaying current evidence of vehicle inspection or any other certificate or both (as may be required by the regulations or the rules); or
fails to comply with the regulations or the rules concerning evidence of vehicle inspection or any other certificate required by the regulations or the rules, or concerning the use of a traction engine that is required to have such evidence or certificate or both.

The maximum penalty on conviction for an offence against subsection (1) is a fine not exceeding $5,000.
For the purposes of this section, public place has the meaning set out in section 22B(3).

Notes

Section 36B: inserted, on 16 January 2006, by section 24 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).