Vic/NSW Rego

[bozodos]

haha what a joke.

I've had the last two cars I've owned registered in Vic but living in NSW (just over the river from Mildura), but I had my licence over there too. Never had any dramas. All of my voting etc was still in NSW. Less than half the price for rego and licencing IIRC. I live over in Vic now so it's no longer an issue.

I did have the NSW HWP pull me over once to ask me "how long had I been living in NSW". I smartly replied that I was visiting my parents over there, there wasn't much he could do apart from go over the car looking for anything defectable and give me daggers.
Everyone does it here, and hilariously half of the cars in Mildura are registered in SA to avoid roadworthies, or licences are held over there due to losing them in Vic for various reasons.

[planetdavo]

End of the day, if you can afford to dispute it in court, you can pursue that option by not admitting guilt through not paying the fine.
If you either realise that you are "technically" in the wrong or can't afford risking bigger expenses again if you lose in court, perhaps it's best considered as "a lesson learnt" and move on.
Like has been said though, whichever way you go, you may have the right to query it in writing without a court being involved, and see what comes back. I'm not familiar enough with NSW laws to know if they give you the right to query it in writing, or that right is actually you taking it to court, with no other prior options available.
It could be a very important point to know.

[planetdavo]

haha what a joke.

I've had the last two cars I've owned registered in Vic but living in NSW (just over the river from Mildura), but I had my licence over there too. Never had any dramas. All of my voting etc was still in NSW. Less than half the price for rego and licencing IIRC. I live over in Vic now so it's no longer an issue.

I did have the NSW HWP pull me over once to ask me "how long had I been living in NSW". I smartly replied that I was visiting my parents over there, there wasn't much he could do apart from go over the car looking for anything defectable and give me daggers.
Everyone does it here, and hilariously half of the cars in Mildura are registered in SA to avoid roadworthies, or licences are held over there due to losing them in Vic for various reasons.

Might be why the OP is in the spot he's in. The government knows the practice is rife, and has instructed the force to target it...

[XUV]

Might be why the OP is in the spot he's in. The government knows the practice is rife, and has instructed the force to target it...

It's always been targeted, every now and then there's a bit in the local rag, with a picture of a Police Officer saying how naughty it is.

[planetdavo]

It's always been targeted, every now and then there's a bit in the local rag, with a picture of a Police Officer saying how naughty it is.

I wasn't surprised with the suggestion that VicRoads are "ok" with it.
Why would they be? As long as he doesn't hurt himself too often, Victoria gets NSW's money!

[XUV]

Victoria gets NSW's money!

yeah, a bit like what Sydney does to Southern N.S.W. ..........

[IJ.]

I wasn't surprised with the suggestion that VicRoads are "ok" with it.
Why would they be? As long as he doesn't hurt himself too often, Victoria gets NSW's money!

Well I guess that's fair seeing as Vic have carried NSW for such a large part of the time since White settlement

[XUV]

Well I guess that's fair seeing as Vic have carried NSW for such a large part of the time since White settlement

oh, he's a funny bugger when he has nothing to do

[Micks]

Well I guess that's fair seeing as Vic have carried NSW for such a large part of the time since White settlement

Look out I need to

[Jag530G]

I'm curious about how this goes because here in Noosa there a few people who live interstate and have a holiday home here with a car parked in the garage (Golfs and Minis seem to be the popular option). I can't imagine someone from Vic would have their Noosa car registered in Vic because that is their address on their licence, surely the rego would be where the car is garaged?

Cheers, Matthew

[seldo]

Just thinking about this again, and if the OP has been charged with his car being "unregistered", I doubt it would stand up in court.
The car is actually registered, but in Vic, and the registration is valid in all states and territories in Aust, so I feel that the cop may have breached you for the wrong offence.
Since, in order to get it registered you have to make a declaration that the facts are as stated, I would think that the charge, if any, should be "make false declaration".
But - I'm not a lawyer...well... a bush one maybe...
For a $600 fine, I'd spend another couple of hundred and get some actual legal advice.

[IJ.]

Look out I need to

Do some research Mick, I wasn't joking

[Micks]

Do some research Mick, I wasn't joking

You want me to research!!!

[bozodos]

Might be why the OP is in the spot he's in. The government knows the practice is rife, and has instructed the force to target it...

maybe, but it still goes on here, and as far as I know, it's never been targeted much by the cops. When I signed over to Vic in 2008, all I needed was a photocopied form, signed by a Vic licence holder stating that I lived where I claimed, and that they'd known me for a year. Not a Stat Dec or anything like that. Rego transferred over without needing an RWC either.

Amusingly the local MP is facing court over having his Vic licenced firearms stored in his NSW property, as they are not 'registered' in NSW or something like that.

[planetdavo]

It's going to need a lawyer, as this one pretty clearly debates points of law. Do a on this sort of subject and there are all sorts of answers, half answers and best guess-timates that would take a full day to read through- with still no real idea of whether you are in the right or the wrong. This current one certainly doesn't look CLOSE to being the first time someone has been fined for being "unregistered" in NSW due to having lived there long term but having maintained interstate rego for financial benefit.
It's pretty obvious that this (current) scenario was done with full knowledge that it goes against either the law or the intent of the laws of the state of NSW, and that the OP is guilty of something with his actions.
The rest is why most lawyers are "doing ok"...