You commit an offence if you have a vehicle recovery service licence or drive a vehicle recovery service vehicle and you do not follow a direction given by an enforcement officer under section 128B. You can be fined up to $2,000 if you are convicted of this offence. If you break this rule, you will have to pay a fine, as stated in the Land Transport Act 1998.

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79HA: Failure to keep or produce records, or

"You must keep and show records about transport services, or you could be fined"

79J: Liability of employers and principal, or

"Employers are responsible if their workers break transport laws"

Part 6AOffences relating to transport services and penalties

79IContravention of section 128B

A person who holds a vehicle recovery service licence or a driver of a vehicle recovery service vehicle commits an offence if the person or the driver acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any direction given by an enforcement officer under section 128B.
The maximum penalty on conviction for an offence against subsection (1) is a fine not exceeding $2,000.

Compare

1989 No 74 s 38(3)

Notes

Section 79I: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 38 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).