Anyone With Unregistered Project Vehicles?

[d@rk51d3]

Listening to the radio today, and it was announced that people with vehicles that have

a) been unregistered for over 2 months, and

b) have not surrendered their number plates

will be getting expiation notices posted out to the value of about $500.00 (was previously about $60.00)

Not sure if this applies to SA only, but something you definitely don't want to get caught out with. Especially with projects in the back yard:(

[101RRS]

These are state controlled - so must be a SA thing.

Does not apply in the ACT.

Garry

[LandyAndy]

$100 fine over here(WA) if you fail to hand in expired rego plates.
Andrew

[Landy Smurf]

so if you find one on the side of the road and keep it you can get fined

[The ho har's]

so if you find one on the side of the road and keep it you can get fined



have you found a project veh on the side of the road then:eek:


Mrs ho har:angel:

[spudboy]

I can't see that being the case.

I have a car that I only register over summer (Karmann Ghia) because it leaks and it's too dangerous in the wet. Every year I re-register it for just 6 months.

Have you got any official links to put up to back this up at all?

Cheers
David

[Bushie]

Here's a starter

Fees and conditions - Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI) (http://www.dtei.sa.gov.au/ezyplates/Plate_support/fees_and_conditions)

It's actually 90 days (there are exemptions though)


Martyn

[Lotz-A-Landies]

... Every year I re-register it for just 6 months.

Have you got any official links to put up to back this up at all?

Cheers
DavidThere have always been fines in NSW for not handing back plates and I thought it was a matter of days not months where you have to hand them in to avoid the fine.

Each time you re-register the car after lapse you are issued a new set of plates and it's corresponding alpha-numeric combination.
Even when we had fleet trucks that were only used in peak periods, we had to have an annual inspection and hand the plates in each time a three month registration period expired and was not continued, although we paid a holding fee to keep the Rego number as they were within a sequence through the entire fleet.

[d@rk51d3]

Announcement came from SAPOL representative, but I haven't chased up any links.

I did get a "warning / threat" in the mail about a trailer in my name that was unregistered for a while, so I went and did both trailer and landy.

Seasonal rego is fine.

[spudboy]

OK. Glad to hear they will still allow seasonal rego.

Might have to give them a call on Monday to clarify the others, especially the Series I as I don't really want to give up the 'old' plate that is on it for a new one.

[Bigbjorn]

In Queensland you are required to hand in the plates of an unregistered vehicle. It is an offence to be in possession of unregistered number plates. All plates are the property of the government except certain "Personalised Plates" which are actually sold to the holder. Up until car ownership became very widespread through the 50's and early sixties, if you failed to pay your registration a nice policeman would call on you eventally and ask you to show that the rego had been paid or hand over the plates. Sheer numbers of vehicles and better uses of police time put an end to this practice.

[spudboy]

Bureaucracy gone mad again :mad:

Surely they have better things to worry about.....

[spudboy]

Just spent over half an hour on hold and chatting to a nice lady at the Dept of Rego SA.

They do indeed want to fine you $200 if the vehicle is unregistered for more than 90 days, BUT, you can do one of two things:
o Write them a letter and ask for seasonal registration (no charge for this)
o Put the vehicle on exemption, which you can do over the phone (and again, no charge for this).

The exemption stays with the vehicle (or perhaps the plates? dunno) and means they won't send you an expiation notice after the 90 days are up.

She said they might check up if no re-registration has occurred within 2 years, but that they'd send a letter first before sending out a fine, and anyway you can ring up and just extend the exemption.

Seems fair to me, but still reckon they should have more pressing matters to concentrate on.

HTH
David

[dickyjoe]

Cripes. If they fine you for not handing the plates in I hope they don't come to my place. I have a collection of number plates on the wall of my shed!

[d@rk51d3]

Cripes. If they fine you for not handing the plates in I hope they don't come to my place. I have a collection of number plates on the wall of my shed!

Yep. Technically they're still govt property, and if you have not paid the rego fees on them..............:coplight: