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Motor Vehicle Dealers Amendment Act 1987

COOK ISLANDS

MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS AMENDMENT ACT 1987

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title and commencement
2. Motor vehicle dealers
3. Motor vehicle dealers to contribute to fund

1987, No. 21

An act to amend the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act 1969.

(4 December 1987

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows.

1. Short Title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Dealers Amendment Act 1987 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act 1986 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

(2) This Act shall come into force on the first day of January 1988.

2. Motor vehicle dealers

(1) The principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (4) of section 3 the following subsection -

"(4A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, every person who carries on the business of renting motor vehicles and who, in any period of 12 consecutive months sells more than 3 motor vehicles used in connection with that business, shall be deemed to be a motor vehicle dealer for the purposes of this Act."

(2) Paragraph (e) of subsection (5) of section 3 is amended by inserting after the words "motor vehicle dealer" the words "or a person who carries on the business of renting motor vehicles."

3. Motor vehicle dealers to contribute to fund

Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 32 is amended by adding the words "in the case of a person carrying on business as a motor vehicle dealer on the island of Rarotonga or having a branch office on the island of Rarotonga. In the case of a person carrying on business as a motor vehicle dealer on any island other than Rarotonga, the sum of S200."

This Act is administered by the Department of Trade, Labour and Transport.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1987