Thread: "special interest vehicle concession" anybody?

It is HEAPS HEAPS cheaper....BUT there are a only a few exceptions.....and if you get done, you are classed as "unregistered, uninsured" and the fine is more than a years rego on a V8. Also if you have a prang and can't justify the use of your vehicle, your insurer will wipe their hands off you regardless of fault.

Also, they will issue plates that identify your vehicle as "special interest", so easy for the peelers to pick you up.
You can have personalised plates attached, but your rego is still listed as 'special interest'.

Basically, if you want to use it to drop down the shops, go for a sunday drive, or pick the wife or children up, you're not allowed.

The exceptions are here:

Restricted vehicle use

: Vehicles registered under the Special Interest Vehicle Scheme have
certain limitations placed on their use. Registered operators must agree that they will confine
their vehicle’s use to:-

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Participating in rallies organised by properly incorporated car clubs;

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Participating in processions for which a Special Event Permit has been issued under
the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Regulation 1995;.

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Exhibiting the vehicle in displays, fetes or similar functions conducted for religious,
charitable or educational purposes;

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Use for ceremonial purposes involving immediate family members, for example
weddings or school formals (immediate family for this scheme means parents or carers
and their dependents grandparents, grandsons and granddaughters and generally does
not refer to extended family relationships such as nephews and nieces), provided this
is not done for a fee or reward;

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Preparing for, proceeding to, and returning from the above activities;

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Travel in order to have the vehicle repaired. There is no distance restriction in these
circumstances however such travel must be reasonable and openly justified by the
vehicle owner;

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Road testing within a 15 kilometre radius from the place where the vehicle is garaged;

These three are the main 'exemptions' you could fit under, but you must be able to justify what you are doing if you get pulled.
i.e. if you on a trip with aulro, you'd get done, if it was a day out with a LROC, you'd be OK.

I have a few vehicles over 30 y.o., but I like to be able drive them wherever and for whatever, so I've never looked at concessional rego. I've also seen too many people get done trying to get around it.

if your purposes fit the use at QT describes though go for it

I have this on my Lotus, and it's a pain in the proverbial. Having said that, in the last year the car has only been out once, so the savings on insurance and rego are very much worth it.

From what you've said you intend to do I don't think its for you.

Don't forget too that you have to remain a member of a car club, and they have to provide you with a correspondance dating the car.

...I was afraid you would say something like that

...probably not worth considering.

Thanks for the answer.

Cheers,

Thomas

You may drive to and from, and participate in events organised by incorporated clubs other than the one to which you belong. However these events must have been "authorised" by your club at a committee meeting, such authorisation recorded in the minutes and published in the Clubs newsletter or magazine. I found it politic to carry copies of these documents with me when on such journeys. The world is full of half-smart coppers and transport inspectors with nothing better to do than pull over an SI reg. vehicle on a Sunday morning. I eventually found the conditions too restrictive and went back to full reg. I liked to take the beast for a bit of exercise whenever I felt like it.

but on another note... you can have personalised plates on these vehicles so it would not be as obvious that it is conditionally registered unless you were pulled up.

This was discussed a few times at LROCB meetings. I seem to recall that there can also be insurance problems - i.e. getting insurance which will cover you if you take an SI vehicle offroad, even if it is an "official" club trip.

Btw - a "recce" is also an official club trip if it is minuted. So if you are a member of a club, as long as each "sunday drive" you do is minuted as an officiel club recce, then it is OK AFAIK.

The club to which I belonged out of necessity for SI registration purposes seemed to have two factions. One which wanted the committee to authorise every event they ever heard about in order to maximise usage of their SI reg. cars, and the other which sought to keep authorised events to the bare minimum fearing excessive authorisations might be seen by the bureaucracy as an abuse of a privilege. I tended to side with the former as I liked to use the vehicle.

G'day Tomkah

Firstly to be eligable for concessional Registration you must belong to a recognised, Incorporated Vehicle club in the State of Queensland, the Vehicle must be over the age of 30 years, (your 1977 Landrover will be eligable in 2008)

The use of the vehicle is limited to sanctioned historic vehicle events or similar functions approved and noted by the moninated club, the vehicle can be used (road tested, in a radius of 15 klm from the place of garagement), or to a specialised service point, and to special events weddings, funerals, etc. but only involving immediate family. the vehicle cannot be used for hire or reward. vehicles can be fitted with personalised or re-issue (White on Black, old type plates N,O,P,) the label has a striped out edge, and is easily recognised by one trained to do so.

There are several types of vehicle clubs that will willingly accept Landrovers, other than one make or country/regional clubs.like the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club, Military Jeep Club Queensland (Military Landrovers only).

cheers