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Recommended Changes to the Consumer Information Standards (Used Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2003: Discussion Paper
March 2007
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List of Recommendations
Supplier's Name and
Address and Contact Information and Registered
Motor Vehicle Trader and Registration Number
1. No changes proposed. Continue to require
the supplier's (or in the case of auctions,
auctioneer's) name, address and any other contact
information, and the registration number of
the registered motor vehicle trader, if applicable,
on the
SIN.
Cash Price
2. Amend cash price
to read "Total cash price including
GST
and any additional costs to allow road use,
e.g. registration and licensing". Continue to
require that sales by auction or competitive
tender state either "for sale by auction" or
"for sale by competitive tender" in place of
the cash price.
Disclosure of Security
Interests
3. Amend security interest to require the
supplier to tick either Yes or No to indicate
whether or not there is a security interest
in the vehicle.
Make and Model, Engine
Capacity, and Operating Fuel Type
4. No change proposed. Continue to require
the supplier to enter on the
SIN
the vehicle make and model, engine capacity,
operating fuel type and the vehicle identification
number or chassis number.
Date Attributes -
Vehicle Year, Year of Manufacture and Year of
First Registration
5. Amend
SIN
by deleting reference to "Vehicle year".
6. Amend
SIN
to require supplier to state year of first registration
of vehicle as recorded on the Motor Vehicle
Register.
Actual Distance the
Vehicle Has Travelled
7. No change proposed. Continue to require
the
SIN
to record the actual distance the vehicle has
travelled or odometer wording disclaimer.
Vehicle Registration
and Vehicle Licence
8. Amend
SIN
to provide separate boxes for "Vehicle registration"
and "Vehicle licence".
9. In the "Vehicle registration" include
tick box "No" or "Yes" options and alongside
the tick box provide for either the "Registration
plate details" to be recorded; or the words
"not yet registered" to be written. Also provide
for a tick box for "Re-registered vehicle" "Yes"
or "No".
10. In the "Vehicle licence expiry" box include
tick box "No" or "Yes" options and alongside
the "Yes" tick box provide for the "Vehicle
licence expiry date" to be recorded.
Registration Plate
Number
11. Provide for either the "Registration
plate details" to be recorded alongside the
"Vehicle registration" tick box; or require
that if the vehicle is unregistered the words
"not yet registered" be written.
Warrant or Certificate
of Fitness
12. No change proposed. Continue to require
the supplier to tick "Yes" or "No" on the
SIN
that there is a warrant of fitness and to record
the warrant's expiry date.
Road User Charges
Apply and Outstanding Road User Charges
13. Continue to require "Yes" or "No" tick
boxes to indicate if road user charges apply
and if any outstanding road user charges. Place
this information on the
SIN
either in close proximity to the cash price
or to the entry disclosing operating fuel type.
Re-Registered Vehicle
14. No change required. Continue to require
"Yes" or "No" tick boxes to indicate whether
re-registered vehicle.
Information about
Imported Used Vehicles, Year First Registered
Overseas and Country Where Last Registered
15. Amend to require country where last registered
prior to import.
16. Continue to require supplier to indicate
"Year first registered overseas" and "Yes" or
"No" tick boxes to indicate whether imported
as damaged vehicle.
Japanese Specification
Radios
17. Amend the
SIN
to provide for a "Yes" or "No" tick box that
refers to the vehicle having a radio receiver
capable of receiving from 88 to 108
MHz without a
band expander.
Supplier Sale and
Vehicle Details
18. No change to requiring a prescribed format
for the
SIN.
19. Amend
SIN
layout to provide for better grouping of like
information.
Consumer Advice
20. Amend the reverse of the
SIN
to give clearer meaning to the Consumer Information
provided. For example "Your Rights" tightened
to "Your Rights as a Consumer" and the security
interest information be amended to better reflect
the disclosure requirements.
21. Correct the contact details for the Personal
Property Securities Register.
Signing and Dating
the
SIN
22. Amend the
SIN
to require both the consumer and trader to sign
the
SIN.
For online sales motor vehicle traders could
possibly use a "tick the box" confirmation system
to ensure the signing obligations are met and
use a mail service or other suitable means to
provide the consumer with a copy of the
SIN.
Notice Title
23. The Supplier Information Notice be renamed
Consumer Information Notice.
24. Amend the
SIN
so that references to "you" are amended to reflect
the duty or instruction as appropriate for the
motor vehicle trader or consumer.
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