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Land Transport Act 1998

Administrative provisions - Powers and additional functions of Authority and Director

198: Inspections and audits

You could also call this:

“Checking if transport services are safe and following the rules”

The Director can ask you to have inspections and audits if you have a document that lets you provide a service in land transport. This is to make sure land transport is safe. The Director can check your vehicles too.

The Director can do inspections and audits that they think are needed to keep land transport safe.

When the Director is doing an inspection or audit, they can ask you to give them information that they think is important for the inspection or audit.

If the Director asks you to do something for an inspection or audit, you have to do it.

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Part 14 Administrative provisions
Powers and additional functions of Authority and Director

198Inspections and audits

  1. The Director may in writing require any person who holds a land transport document that authorises the provision of a service in the land transport system to undergo such inspections and audits as the Director reasonably considers necessary in the interests of land transport safety (including inspections and audits of vehicles operated by such persons).

  2. The Director may carry out such inspections and audits as the Director reasonably considers necessary in the interests of land transport safety.

  3. For the purposes of any inspection or audit carried out in respect of any person under this section, the Director may in writing require that person to provide such information as the Director reasonably considers relevant to the inspection or audit.

  4. A person to whom a requirement is made under this section must comply with that requirement.

Notes
  • Section 198(1): amended, on , by section 122 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
  • Section 198(2): amended, on , by section 122 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
  • Section 198(3): amended, on , by section 122 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).