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Land Transport Act 1998

Enforcement of responsibilities - General enforcement powers

113A: Power to inspect records

You could also call this:

“Officers can check your papers to make sure you're following the rules”

If you follow the rules of the Land Transport Act 1998, you might meet an enforcement officer who wants to check if you’re following the rules. This officer will be wearing a uniform or will show you proof that they are an officer.

The officer can ask you to show them important papers right away. These papers can be books or records that you have or control. Some examples of these papers are:

  • Records about road user charges
  • Logbooks and records related to logbooks
  • Papers that show how much money you spend on fuel
  • Papers that show how you take care of your vehicle
  • Papers that show how your vehicles lose value over time
  • Papers that show the time you work and how much you get paid
  • Waybills, which are papers that describe goods being transported

The officer is allowed to take parts of these papers or make copies of them.

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Part 9 Enforcement 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).