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Land Transport Act 1998

Offences relating to driving (other than alcohol- and drug-related offences) and penalties - Other offences

45: Contravention of section 17

You could also call this:

“Breaking the law by messing with a vehicle's distance counter”

If you change the distance recorder on a motor vehicle or do something to the vehicle to make the distance recorder show a false reading, you are breaking the law. This means you are doing something wrong on purpose to make it look like the vehicle has travelled a different distance than it really has.

If you are found guilty of doing this, you might have to pay a fine. The most you could be made to pay is $2,000.

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Other offences

45Contravention of section 17

  1. A person commits an offence if the person, with intent to cause a false record of the distance travelled by a motor vehicle to be shown or recorded, makes or causes to be made any alteration to the distance recorder or to the vehicle.

  2. The maximum penalty on conviction for an offence against subsection (1) is a fine not exceeding $2,000.

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