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Land Transport Act 1998

Clean vehicle standard - Clean vehicle standard - Opening, closing, and suspension of carbon dioxide accounts

191: When Director may close carbon dioxide accounts

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“The Director can close your carbon dioxide account if you ask or if you don't need it anymore”

The Director can close your carbon dioxide account in two situations:

  1. You can ask the Director to close your account. If you do this, the Director will close it.

  2. The Director can close your account even if you don’t ask. But before doing this, the Director must give you fair warning. The Director also needs to be sure you don’t need the account anymore.

When the Director wants to close your account without you asking, they must tell you in writing first. They need to let you know they plan to close it. They also need to give you enough time to explain why you might still need the account. This is what ‘reasonable notice’ means in this case.

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Part 13 Clean vehicle standard
Clean vehicle standard: Opening, closing, and suspension of carbon dioxide accounts

191When Director may close carbon dioxide accounts

  1. The Director may close a carbon dioxide account—

  2. if the Director receives a requirement from the account holder to close the account; or
    1. where the Director has not received a requirement from the account holder, if the Director has given the account holder reasonable notice and the Director is satisfied that the account holder no longer requires the account.

      1. For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), reasonable notice means notice in writing to the account holder of the Director’s intention to close the account and sufficient opportunity in the circumstances for the account holder to make submissions to the Director regarding the account holder’s need to retain the account.

      Notes
      • Section 191: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 2).