Clause 22

by inserting, immediately after the words “may be used” in subsection (1), the words “, or that any person driving or riding a vehicle,”;

by deleting the word “or” at the end of subsection (1)(a);

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the following paragraph:“(aa)order the driver or rider of the vehicle to produce his or her competency test certificate for examination or other identity documents so as to enable the authorised officer, public path warden or outsourced enforcement officer (as the case may be) to ascertain the identity of the driver or rider and the authority by which any competency test certificate was granted; or”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) However, only an authorised officer may pursuant to an order under section 35A(1) give an order under subsection (1)(b) requiring a vehicle to be delivered for an inspection by a designated examiner.”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsections:“(4A) An individual driving or riding a vehicle who, in purported compliance with any order given to him or her under subsection (1)(aa) by an authorised officer or outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden —

produces to an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden —

a competency test certificate that is altered in a way that is calculated to deceive (whether or not it was already a false document before the alteration or it was altered by the individual), knowing that it is so altered;

an article resembling a competency test certificate and calculated to deceive, knowing that the document is not a competency test certificate; or

a competency test certificate that was not granted to the individual, knowing that it was not so granted to that individual; and

with the intention of dishonestly inducing the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden to accept it as genuine,commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.(4B) A driver or rider of a vehicle to whom an order under subsection (1)(aa) is given who refuses or neglects to comply with the order commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; but(b)where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.(4C) However, subsection (4B) does not apply if within 48 hours after an order is given to a driver or rider of a vehicle under subsection (1)(aa), the driver or rider produces the competency test certificate in person at any of the offices of the Authority that is specified by the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden at the time the order was given.(4D) An individual to whom a digital competency test certificate is granted who holds, or produces or carries a mobile communication device or other electronic device on which the digital competency test certificate is displayed for the purpose of complying with an order under subsection (1)(aa) to produce a competency test certificate is taken to have produced a competency test certificate for that purpose.(4E) However, a digital competency test certificate is not displayed for the purpose of complying with an order under subsection (1)(aa) to produce or carry a competency test certificate if —

the screen of the mobile communication device or other electronic device on which it is purportedly displayed is unable to be read by the person to whom it is displayed due to cracking, dimming, dirt or any other fault, damage or obstruction;

the individual fails or refuses to comply with a reasonable request by the person to whom it is purported to be displayed to facilitate the reading, copying or scanning of the whole or any part of the digital competency test certificate; or

the holder of the digital competency test certificate refuses to comply with a reasonable direction to refresh the display of the digital competency test certificate.(4F) To avoid doubt, an individual who displays or purports to display a digital competency test certificate is not required to give or hand over, to the person who is requiring the competency test certificate to be produced or handed over, the mobile communication device or other electronic device on which the digital competency test certificate is displayed or purported to be displayed.”; and

by inserting, immediately after the words “weigh vehicle” in the section heading, the words “or produce competency test certificate”.