Land Transport (Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2011

Schedule 2 Exemptions

rr 7, 8, 19, 23, 77

Part 1 Motor vehicles exempt from continuous licensing requirement

1

A tractor.

2

A traction engine.

3

A forklift.

4

A self-propelled machine that is designed and constructed (not merely adapted) for specialist industrial purposes such as driving, carrying, or propelling any of the following:

(a)

aerodrome runway sweepers:

(b)

electrical substations:

(c)

filters for transformer oil:

(d)

log haulers that are stationary when hauling logs:

(e)

aero engine test benches.

5

A self-propelled machine that is designed and constructed (not merely adapted) for agricultural purposes, but not including—

(a)

a self-propelled machine for trimming trees or hedges; or

(b)

a motor vehicle designed for spreading fertiliser if it is used on a road for the cartage of fertiliser; or

(c)

a motor vehicle designed as a weed sprayer on a truck chassis.

6

A veteran motor vehicle or a vintage motor vehicle.

7

A pedestrian-controlled motor vehicle designed exclusively or principally for the carriage of goods, including animals and mail, but not including a tractor.

8

An all-terrain vehicle.

9

A motor vehicle that is being held for the purpose of sale by a motor vehicle trader (within the meaning of the Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003) or by a person otherwise lawfully engaged in trading motor vehicles.

10

A stolen vehicle (until returned to the owner’s possession after the theft).

11

A trailer whose gross laden weight does not exceed 3 500 kilograms.

12

An exempted vehicle as defined in the Land Transport Management (Apportionment and Refund of Excise Duty and Excise-Equivalent Duty) Regulations 2004.

Part 2 Motor vehicles not exempt from registration and licensing but exempt from requirement to pay registration and licensing fees

1

A pedestrian-controlled goods service vehicle.

2

A motor vehicle propelled and supported solely by self-laying tracks.

3

An all-terrain vehicle.

4

Any mobile machinery used on roads only in road construction zones in accordance with notices declaring such zones.

5

A logging truck or logging trailer that is unladen and is only used on a road while being taken directly to a place of, and for the purpose of, inspection, servicing, repair, or obtaining evidence of vehicle inspection.

Schedule 2 Part 2 item 5: inserted, on 1 October 2012, by regulation 18 of the Land Transport (Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Amendment Regulations 2012 (SR 2012/227).

Part 3 Motor vehicles not exempt from registration and licensing but exempt from requirement to pay registration and licensing fees until close of 1 August 2011

[Expired]

Schedule 2 Part 3: expired, on 2 August 2011, by regulation 99.