Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) A police officer or authorised person, or a person inspecting a vehicle under this chapter, may attach a notice (a noncompliance notice ) to the vehicle if the officer or person suspects, on reasonable grounds, that—
(a) the vehicle or its equipment or fittings, or its servicing or maintenance, do not comply with these regulations; or
(b) the vehicle (including its equipment and fittings) does not comply with the vehicle standards.
(2) The notice must state—
(a) the action necessary for the vehicle, equipment or fittings, or its servicing or maintenance, to comply with these regulations or the vehicle standards; and
(b) a date and time (the time of effect ) after which the vehicle must not be operated as a public passenger vehicle unless the notice has been removed by a police officer or authorised person.
(3) A police officer or authorised person may remove the noncompliance notice from the vehicle, or direct in writing that it be taken to have been removed, if satisfied on inspection or testing of the vehicle or its equipment or fittings that the necessary action mentioned in the notice has been taken.
(4) A person, other than a police officer or authorised person, must not remove a noncompliance notice from a public passenger vehicle.
Maximum penalty (subregulation (4)): 20 penalty units.
(5) A police officer's or authorised person's power to issue a noncompliance notice for a public passenger vehicle under this regulation is additional to the power of the police officer or authorised person to issue a defect notice under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulations 2000 for a public passenger vehicle.