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Land Transport Act 1998

Administrative provisions - Register of land transport records

200J: Operation, access, and search of register

You could also call this:

“How to use and manage the land transport record book”

The register is a place where land transport records are kept. The person in charge of the register can choose how to keep it, as long as you can easily find and use the information in it.

The register needs to be working all the time, except when the person in charge needs to stop it for a short time. They might need to stop it to fix it, to solve technical problems, or to keep it safe and working properly. Sometimes, the rules might say it’s okay to stop the register too.

You can look at the register, search for information in it, and make copies of what you find. But there are two times when you might not be able to do this. First, if the person in charge has stopped the register for one of the reasons mentioned earlier. Second, if there are rules that say you can’t.

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Part 14 Administrative provisions
Register of land transport records

200JOperation, access, and search of register

  1. The register may be kept in any manner that the Registrar thinks fit provided it permits the contents to be readily accessed or reproduced in usable form.

  2. The register must be operated at all times unless—

  3. the Registrar suspends its operation (in whole or in part)—
    1. for maintenance purposes; or
      1. in response to technical difficulties; or
        1. to ensure the security or integrity of the register; or
        2. the regulations prescribe otherwise.

          1. Any person may access or search the register, or make copies of information in the register, except to the extent that—

          2. the Registrar suspends its operation in accordance with subsection (2); or
            1. the regulations provide otherwise.

              Notes
              • Section 200J: inserted, on , by section 123 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).