Thread: NSW Classic/Historic Registration Scheme - Club Affiliation.

Thanks for all the comments - answers my questions.

The ACT is proposing 60 days including club trips which compared to the Vic system and the NSW trial system seems to be offering its members a system not quite as good as either. However we have not as yet seen the formal proposal so we will have to wait and see what is offered.

Cheers

Garry

An innocent question, if one was to drive and park for say 8 hours (could be shopping, work or an event of some description) and then drive home, is this considered one trip or two?

Chris

It’s done on a 24 hour period in VIC. The stroke of midnight- so you can do as many trips in that 24 hour period as you like. That’s my understanding.

Queensland Dept. Transport & Main Roads call theirs Special Interest Registration. Can be used for travel to & from & participation in an "Authorised Event", road testing following repair to a maximum distance of 15 kms. from the address of record, or travelling to & from a place of repair. This latter should not be an excessive distance but reasonable. For example Brisbane to Ipswich might be considered reasonable but not to Toowoomba or Gold Coast. Driving to a parts shop to obtain parts to repair the vehicle is considered unauthorised private use. Using an SI registered vehicle contrary to the rules means you are driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle. If caught out you may be required to leave the vehicle whilst you arrange for a tow truck. If you have an accident when driving contrary to the rules, then God help you. Your insurers won't.

TMR tell me there is no consideration being given to a log book scheme in Queensland. I recall meetings with the TMR movers and shakers when I was a club delegate to the council years ago. Their thinking appears unchanged from then. That is that TMR has the SI scheme because it is part of the National Code of Practice. It serves no useful purpose. It is something extra to administer. It costs the govt. money in discounted registration. You have to be a financial member of a registered motoring club when you first register your SI vehicle but do not have to prove this when you renew your SI registration every year. The Dept. has been upfront in that they do not intend to act as the membership police on behalf of the clubs. Clubs, do your own collecting.

Garry at last count I have 4 historic rego vehicles kicking about.
Only one has a 30 day private use .
What I did was tell my club registar I was going for 30 day private use so he could record it.
Then I went to the registry.. (services nsw) as they now call them selves and asked for it at renewral time for that vehicle.
They gave me alog book and told me it must be filled out if used for private use and carried with me.
If doing a club run with that vehicle I just tell the club registar as per normal and dont worry about the log book.
The private use is a extension of the normal historic rego only if you want it.
The fact is I found little use for it, as I tend to only use my historic vehicles on club runs anyhow and you can only drive one vehicle at a time.
Letting a non club member drive that historic vehicle private use or not I think would deem it illegal.
The system worries me a bit as it is open to abuse and could raise the cost of historic rego though increased insurance and personal injury pay outs etc.
I think thats why it is a extended trail only in NSW

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

An innocent question, if one was to drive and park for say 8 hours (could be shopping, work or an event of some description) and then drive home, is this considered one trip or two?

Chris

As GG said, in Vic until midnight of the entry made, so as long as you’re done shopping by midnight you don’t need to make a second entry. If you change drivers, that’s a different story, Vic Police seem to require an entry for each driver but last time I looked, the written rules weren’t clear on this - they may have been changed since I last looked this up though.

NSW is the same. You only have to fill out an entry on the log sheet once and that covers you for the whole day. There is a requirement to put drivers name and signature on the sheet, so I don't think there is an issue with who is driving it, as long as the sheet is filled out.

30 day? As far as I know there's no other trial but 60 day. For what it's worth, I reckon it's a great scheme.