Section 7

Before registering any motor vehicle or trailer, the licensing officer shall verify all the particulars entered in the application form, and may, if he deems it necessary, send any vehicle to be examined by an examiner for the purpose of ensuring that it is of suitable construction and in suitable condition for the purpose for which it is sought to register the vehicle.

Any police officer shall have power to send, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed, for examination by an examiner any motor vehicle or trailer which appears to him to be in such a state of disrepair as to constitute a danger to other users of the road or to any person carried in the motor vehicle.

Every licensing officer shall have power to call up for examination at a specified time and place by an examiner at any time any motor vehicle or trailer for the purpose of ensuring that the vehicle or trailer is in a fit and proper state of repair and conforms with the provisions of this

Act and the regulations made thereunder.

If any owner of a motor vehicle or trailer is aggrieved at any decision of an examiner, he may within 30 days thereof require that the decision be confirmed by the Director who may confirm the decision or modify it in such respects as appear to him to be required.

The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make regulations for the examination, by any person authorised by the Minister, of any vehicle and for purposes connected therewith, and for the issue, where the vehicle is found on such examination

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to comply with any prescribed requirements relating to its construction and condition, of a certificate that at the date of such examination those requirements had been complied with.

Regulations made under subsection (5) may make different provision in respect of different vehicles or classes of vehicles.