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Land Transport Act 1998

Enforcement of responsibilities - General enforcement powers

113A: Power to inspect records

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"Showing records to enforcement officers to check you are following the law"

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To check if you are following the Land Transport Act 1998, an enforcement officer can ask you to show them certain records. They can do this if they are in uniform or have a warrant to prove they are an enforcement officer. You must show them the records straight away, and these can include things like logbooks, financial records, and vehicle maintenance records, as well as records kept under section 65 of the Road User Charges Act 2012. The enforcement officer can take notes or make copies of the records you show them. They are doing this to see if you are complying with the Land Transport Act 1998.

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Part 9Enforcement of responsibilities
General enforcement powers

113APower to inspect records

  1. For the purpose of ascertaining whether this Act has been or is being complied with by any person to whom this Act applies, any enforcement officer in uniform or in possession of a warrant or other evidence of his or her authority as an enforcement officer may require that person to produce without delay for inspection all relevant books or records in that person's possession or over which that person has control, including (but not limited to) records kept under section 65 of the Road User Charges Act 2012, logbooks, records associated with logbooks, financial records relating to expenditure on fuel, invoices, vehicle maintenance records, depreciation records for vehicles, time and wage records, and waybills.

  2. The enforcement officer may take extracts from or make copies of any books or records so produced.

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Notes
  • Section 113A: inserted, on , by section 63 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).
  • Section 113A(1): amended, on , by section 52 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).