An application for registration of a motor vehicle must—

For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

Before issuing a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle under section 257(1)(c) of the Act, the Registrar must—

The Registrar must not issue a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle if the Police have advised the Registrar that the motor vehicle has been reported as having been stolen.

The Registrar must not issue a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle if the fees or charges prescribed for the vehicle under section 167(1)(j) for the purpose of section 167A of the Act have not been paid.

Certificates of registration are to be in such form as the Registrar may determine.

A registered person must, in a form acceptable to the Registrar, notify the Registrar if the motor vehicle in respect of which the person is registered—

Before a registrar may dispose of a motor vehicle, the registrar must apply to have the registration of the motor vehicle cancelled if—

If subclause (1) or (2) applies, the registered person or registrar (as the case may be) must, when notifying the Registrar, deliver one of the following to the Registrar:

On receipt of the notification and either the registration plates and current licence or the explanation or statutory declaration (as the case may be), the Registrar must, if satisfied that the notification is in order, cancel the motor vehicle’s registration under section 255 of the Act.

For the purposes of—

For the purposes of this regulation,—

This regulation applies to motor vehicles that are subject to the continuous licensing requirement (not being motor vehicles listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2).

In addition to the circumstances described in regulation 6, the Registrar may cancel a motor vehicle’s registration under section 255 of the Act if at least 12 months have elapsed since the date of expiry of the latest licence issued (or the temporary exemption from the continuous licensing requirement granted) for the motor vehicle and no new licence has been issued (or no temporary exemption has been granted) for the motor vehicle since that date.

This regulation applies to motor vehicles listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (motor vehicles exempt from continuous licensing requirement).

In addition to the circumstances described in regulations 6 and 7, the Registrar may cancel a motor vehicle’s registration under section 255 of the Act if at least 24 months have elapsed since the date of expiry of the latest licence issued (or the stay granted under subclause (3)) for the motor vehicle and no new licence has been issued (or further stay granted) for the motor vehicle since that date.

A registered person, or a person acting on the registered person’s behalf, may, prior to the date of cancellation, apply for a stay of cancellation of registration of the motor vehicle in respect of which the person is registered.

Regulations 20(1) to (9), 21, 22, and 23 apply to stays of cancellation as if the stays were temporary exemptions from continuous licensing.

The Registrar may cancel a motor vehicle’s registration under section 255 of the Act if the Registrar is satisfied that the motor vehicle has not been registered or licensed in accordance with the Act or regulations made under the Act.

If a motor vehicle’s registration is cancelled under regulation 7, 8, or 9, the person in possession of the registration plates must, when required by the Registrar, surrender the plates to the Registrar or to an enforcement officer.

In the case of a registration plate in the form of an adhesive label, a sufficient portion of the plate must be surrendered to satisfy the Registrar that it is (or is part of) the relevant plate.

An application for a licence for a motor vehicle must—

In the case of a motor vehicle that is not registered, references in subclause (1) to the registered person are to be read as references to the person who is to be registered in respect of the motor vehicle.

For the purposes of subclause (1)(e), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

The Registrar may not issue a licence for a motor vehicle if the accident insurance levy in respect of the period for which the licence is to be in force has not been paid.

For the purposes of section 245 of the Act,—

The licence for a motor vehicle is to be issued and have effect (unless it is cancelled) for any period up to 12 months as the applicant may request.

This regulation applies to a licence for a motor vehicle that—

Despite regulation 14, a licence described in subclause (1) has effect in the period that begins on the commencement date and ends on 30 November 2021.

This regulation does not affect a person’s liability to pay the applicable prescribed fees and accident insurance levies from the date the licence would otherwise have expired.

A person does not commit an offence under regulations 77 and 78 in relation to a licence to which this regulation applies for the period the licence remains in effect under this regulation.

In this regulation, commencement date means the date on which the Land Transport (Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing) (COVID-19—Extension of Duration of Motor Vehicle Licences) Amendment Regulations 2021 comes into force.

The licence for a motor vehicle is to be in the form of diagram 1 in Schedule 1, subject to the notes in that schedule.

The licence for a motor vehicle must be displayed as set out in this regulation.

In the case of a motorcycle, moped, or trailer, the licence must be affixed to the motorcycle, moped, or trailer immediately below or as close as practicable to the registration plate.

In the case of a motor vehicle that is not a motorcycle, moped, or trailer,—

In every case, the licence must be displayed in an upright, easily visible position.

The licence for a motor vehicle may be displayed, in the manner described in this regulation, at any time within the month before the date on which the licence comes into force.

If a licence is displayed in accordance with subclause (5), and a current licence is in force for the motor vehicle, the display of the new licence is sufficient evidence that the motor vehicle is licensed.

This regulation applies if—

Before issuing the new licence, the Registrar may require—

If the motor vehicle had previously been exempt from the requirement to pay registration fees by regulations made under section 35A(1)(a) of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986, but the exemption does not apply with respect to the purpose for which the motor vehicle is or will be used, the registered person must pay the prescribed registration fee.

If the prescribed fee or accident insurance levy paid for the existing licence is higher than the fee or levy payable for the new licence, the Registrar must refund the amount of that difference, pro-rated for the unused portion of the existing licence.

If the prescribed fee or accident insurance levy paid for the existing licence is lower than the fee or levy payable for the new licence, the registered person, or a person acting on the registered person’s behalf, must pay the amount of that difference, pro-rated for the unused portion of the existing licence.

If the address of a registered person changes, the person must, without delay, notify the Registrar of the new address.

Motor vehicles described in—

Motor vehicles used on a private road are exempt from the requirement to be registered and licensed.

For the purposes of subclause (2), private road means a road, place, or arcade laid out or formed on private land by the owner of that land.

Subclause (2) applies in respect of a registered motor vehicle if the registered person, or a person acting on the registered person’s behalf,—

The registered person, or a person acting on the registered person’s behalf, may apply to the Registrar for an exemption from the continuous licensing requirement.

The application must be in a form acceptable to the Registrar, and contain the information and declarations that are specified by the Registrar.

The application must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

On receipt of a properly completed application, accompanied by any unpaid licence fees and accident insurance levies (or where the Registrar is satisfied that satisfactory arrangements have been made for the payment of those unpaid fees and levies), the Registrar must, subject to subclauses (7) and (9), grant an exemption for a period that the Registrar thinks fit.

The Registrar may decline to grant an exemption if there are unpaid licence fees or levies or the Registrar is not satisfied that satisfactory arrangements have been made for the payment of those unpaid fees or levies.

The Registrar may require the registered person, or the person acting on the registered person’s behalf, to surrender the registration plate or plates of the motor vehicle for the duration of the exemption.

If the registration plate or plates are surrendered, the Registrar must, on expiry of the exemption, return the surrendered plate or plates or, where that is not reasonably practicable, a duplicate plate or plates.

The Registrar may decline an application made under subclause (2) if the Registrar has previously revoked an exemption granted to the applicant.

The Registrar may, subject to subclause (9), renew the exemption, on 1 or more occasions, for a further period that the Registrar thinks fit.

The period of an exemption or a renewal of an exemption must be no less than 3 months and no more than 12 months.

An exemption or a renewal of an exemption may include a period occurring before the date on which the exemption or renewal of an exemption is granted.

However, if the application for an exemption is lodged with the Registrar more than 60 days after the date of expiry of the latest licence or exemption issued for the motor vehicle, the registered person is liable to pay an amount equal to the sum of—

An exemption under regulation 20 in respect of a motor vehicle has no effect while the motor vehicle is being operated.

While a motor vehicle is temporarily exempt from the continuous licensing requirement, the motor vehicle is also exempt from any fees and accident insurance levies that would otherwise be payable for licensing the motor vehicle in respect of the period of the exemption.

Subclause (1) is subject to regulation 20(11).

The Registrar may, by notice in writing to the registered person, revoke an exemption granted under regulation 20 if—

Revocation takes effect on the date specified in the notice, and that date may not be earlier than—

An application for a trade plate must—

For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

As soon as practicable after receiving an application made under section 262 of the Act, together with the prescribed fee and accident insurance levy, the Registrar may issue a trade plate to the applicant if the Registrar is satisfied that—

If the conditions in subclause (2) are met, a person to whom a trade plate is issued under regulation 25 may operate a motor vehicle even though the motor vehicle—

The conditions are as follows:

A trade plate comes into force on the later of—

A trade plate expires on 31 December of the year for which it is issued.

An application for a supplementary plate for a motor vehicle must—

For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

An application for a supplementary plate must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

The Registrar may issue a supplementary plate for a motor vehicle if satisfied that an ordinary plate or personalised plate on the motor vehicle will be obscured by an object being carried temporarily on the motor vehicle.

A person may operate a motor vehicle displaying a supplementary plate only if, at all times while the motor vehicle is being operated,—

The Registrar may decline to issue trade plates or supplementary plates if—

The unique identifier for a registration plate must not be assigned (in the same or a different format) to more than 1 motor vehicle at any given time.

The unique identifier for an ordinary plate must be a combination of letters or numbers, or of both, and the combination must not exceed,—

A combination must not be used for an ordinary plate if the combination appears or is to appear on—

If the registration of a motor vehicle has been cancelled and an application is subsequently made under section 243 of the Act to register the motor vehicle and the relevant unique identifier has not yet been reallocated under this Part, then—

The unique identifier on an ordinary plate must be—

The base material of an ordinary plate must be aluminium or any other material that may be determined by the Registrar.

Despite subclause (5), an ordinary plate to be fixed to the front of a motor vehicle may be in the form of an adhesive label.

The unique identifier for a personalised plate is the combination of letters or numbers, or of both, or the single letter or number, allocated for use on that plate.

The Registrar must not allocate a combination comprising,—

The Registrar must not allocate a combination, or a single letter or number, if—

The unique identifier on a personalised plate must be—

The base material of a personalised plate must be aluminium or any other material that may be determined by the Registrar.

Despite subclause (5), a personalised plate to be fixed to the front of a motor vehicle may be in the form of an adhesive label.

A supplementary plate must bear the same unique identifier as the plate of which it is a match.

A supplementary plate must bear an additional letter, number, word, or symbol or have some other distinguishing feature to identify it as a supplementary plate and distinguish it from the plate of which it is a match.

The unique identifier on a supplementary plate must be—

The base material of a supplementary plate must be aluminium or any other material that may be determined by the Registrar.

A trade plate must be made with a yellow retro-reflective background, bearing, embossed in black,—

A trade plate is to be in the form of—

The base material of a trade plate must be aluminium or any other material that may be determined by the Registrar.

Subclause (2) applies, in place of regulation 33(1), to—

The registration plates for any such motor vehicle are to be distinguished solely by the symbol or, as the case may be, the letters and numbers specified (for the person, government or organisation in question) in the second column of that table.

In addition to a unique identifier, a registration plate may also display subsidiary characters, messages, symbols, or slogans if the characters, messages, symbols, or slogans—

Subsidiary characters, messages, symbols, or slogans approved under subclause (1) may be of any colour.

Ordinary plates must be displayed as set out in this regulation.

In the case of a motorcycle, moped, tractor, or trailer, 1 plate must be securely affixed in an upright position on the rear of the motorcycle, moped, tractor, or trailer and displayed so that the unique identifier on the plate is easily visible at all times from the rear of the motorcycle, moped, tractor, or trailer.

In the case of any other kind of motor vehicle, 1 plate must be displayed on the front of the motor vehicle and 1 plate must be displayed on the rear of the motor vehicle, and both plates must be securely affixed in an upright position and displayed so that the unique identifier on the plate is easily visible at all times,—

Despite anything in subclause (2), the Registrar may impose any other requirements in respect of the position and manner of display of registration plates.

An instrument imposing requirements is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements), unless it relates only to 1 or more individually identified motor vehicles or named persons.

Personalised plates must be displayed in the same manner as ordinary plates.

A supplementary plate, when used on a motor vehicle, must be securely affixed to the motor vehicle, or to the object that is obscuring the ordinary plate or personalised plate displayed on the motor vehicle, in an upright position and displayed so that the unique identifier is easily visible at all times,—

A supplementary plate must not be affixed to any motor vehicle other than the motor vehicle bearing the ordinary or personalised plate of which it is a match.

Trade plates, when used on a motor vehicle, must be securely affixed on the rear and, at the discretion of the Registrar, on the front of the motor vehicle in an upright position and displayed so that the unique identifier is easily visible at all times from the rear of the motor vehicle and (in the case of a front-mounted plate) from the front of the motor vehicle.

This regulation applies if—

Even if the transferor has not yet received the plates, the transferor may sell or otherwise dispose of the exclusive rights to them to another person in accordance with section 260(2)(a) of the Act.

Upon the sale or disposal under subclause (1)(b)(i) but before the plates are passed from the transferor to the transferee, both the transferor and the transferee must, in a form acceptable to the Registrar, notify the Registrar of the details of the sale or disposal.

Before the transfer under subclause (1)(b)(ii) takes place, the transferor must, in a form provided by the Registrar, notify the Registrar of the details of the transfer.

The details must, if applicable, include details of the registration plates that will be displayed on each motor vehicle or motor vehicles to which the plates are to be affixed.

If the plates have already been issued, they must, at the discretion of the Registrar, be produced to the Registrar for inspection.

If the plates are currently used on a motor vehicle, the transferor must apply for the issue of ordinary plates or other personalised plates for that motor vehicle.

If, following the disposal or transfer, the plates are to be affixed to a motor vehicle, any existing registration plates for that motor vehicle must be surrendered to the Registrar.

The forms required by this section, together with any plates required to be produced or surrendered, must be submitted to the Registrar at the same time.

A person who acquires an exclusive right to personalised plates is not entitled to receive the plates until—

A person who has acquired personalised plates is not entitled to affix them to a motor vehicle unless—

On receipt of the prescribed fee and issue of the personalised plates referred to in subclause (1), the Registrar must—

Personalised plates must not be manufactured until required for affixing to the motor vehicle to which they are to be affixed.

A person to whom personalised plates for a motor vehicle are issued must surrender to the Registrar any existing registration plates for that motor vehicle.

A person may at any time surrender the personalised plates issued for a motor vehicle in respect of which the person is registered and, on payment of the fee prescribed for the issue of ordinary plates, the person is entitled to receive ordinary plates for the motor vehicle.

On receipt of the prescribed fee and issue of the ordinary plates referred to in subclause (1), the Registrar must—

The particulars required to be notified to the Registrar for the purposes of section 247(1)(a) of the Act are—

For the purposes of subclause (1)(d), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

If a motor vehicle is subject to a hire purchase agreement and the motor vehicle is repossessed pursuant to the terms of that agreement, notice must be given by the person who is the vendor for the purposes of the agreement.

If a lien or charge is enforced in respect of a motor vehicle, notice must be given by the holder of the lien or charge, as the case may be.

If a sale order is executed in respect of a motor vehicle, notice must be given by the enforcing officer.

If a change of ownership of a motor vehicle occurs by operation of law, notice must be given by the person acquiring ownership.

If a motor vehicle is sold or disposed of under section 356 or 356A of the Local Government Act 1974, notice must be given by the local authority or the New Zealand Transport Agency, as the case may be.

If a case falls within any of subclauses (2) to (5), the Registrar may require the notice to be accompanied by a statutory declaration by the person giving the notice that sets out, in a form provided or approved by the Registrar, the circumstances of the change of ownership.

For the purposes of—

The particulars required to be notified to the Registrar for the purposes of section 247(1)(b) or (2) of the Act are—

For the purposes of subclause (1)(g), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

The notification required by section 247(1)(b) or (2) of the Act must be accompanied by—

On payment of the prescribed fee and receipt of the documents and evidence referred to in regulation 48, the Registrar must—

However, the Registrar is not required to take any step specified in subclause (1)(c) if the motor vehicle has been reported to the Police as having been stolen.

This regulation applies—

If this regulation applies, then—

On payment of the prescribed fee and receipt of the particulars referred to in subclause (2), the Registrar must issue a new certificate of registration that sets out the particulars of the new registered person, and forward the new certificate to the new registered person.

The Registrar, on application by any party to the sale of a registered motor vehicle or on the Registrar’s own motion, may correct any entry in the register of motor vehicles if the Registrar is satisfied that it is necessary to do so.

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Subject to regulation 68, an applicant must send the applicant’s answers to the questions that are specified in regulation 57 to the Secretary in writing or electronically.

An applicant may send the Secretary, in writing or electronically, any other information that the applicant considers the Secretary may need to decide whether to approve the application.

The Secretary may ask an applicant, in writing or electronically, for any other information that the Secretary considers he or she may need to decide whether to approve the application.

An applicant who is an individual wanting an authorisation for his or her own purposes must answer the questions on the basis that “you” and “your” refer to himself or herself.

An applicant wanting an authorisation for the purposes of the applicant’s business must answer the questions on the basis that “you” and “your” refer to the business.

An applicant that is a representative body that has disciplinary power may apply for one of the following:

An applicant that is a representative body that has no disciplinary power may apply for authorisations in the names of all its individual members, to be used by the individual members.

The applicant must answer the questions on the basis that “you” and “your” refer to—

The questions are as follows:

The Registrar may make available 1 or more of the following methods for persons to notify the Registrar that they do not wish to have their names and addresses made available under an authorisation:

The Registrar may require a person making an application or notification in respect of a motor vehicle under Part 17 of the Act or these regulations to provide any of the following:

For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), different requirements may be imposed for different cases or for different classes of motor vehicles.

An application by the registered person under section 264(1) of the Act must be in a form acceptable to the Registrar and must provide—

The application must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

Before issuing a replacement licence or certificate of registration or a duplicate or replacement plate under section 264, the Registrar may also require the applicant to—

The Registrar may require a person operating a motor vehicle that has affixed to it any licence that is not authorised by or under Part 17 of the Act to be affixed to the motor vehicle to surrender the licence to the Registrar.

If a registered person wishes to replace the motor vehicle’s existing registration plates (being plates specified in regulation 33(4)(a)) with reflectorised registration plates, the person may apply to the Registrar for the issue of reflectorised plates.

Regulation 60(1) and (2) apply to an application under subclause (1) as they apply to an application under section 264(1) of the Act.

The Registrar must issue the reflectorised plates to the registered person on surrender of the existing plates.

The fees payable for the registration or cancellation of registration of a motor vehicle are specified in Parts 1 and 1A of Schedule 5.

The fees payable for the licensing of a motor vehicle are specified in Parts 2, 2A, 3, and 4 of Schedule 5.

The fees specified in Parts 1, 2, and 3 of Schedule 5 that are payable under this regulation (excluding applicable refunds, and goods and services tax payable under the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985) are land transport revenue for the purposes of section 6 of the Land Transport Management Act 2003.

The fees payable for the issue of a registration plate are specified in Parts 5 and 5A of Schedule 5.

That fee is payable as follows:

The additional fee payable under section 269A of the Act in respect of certain classes of RUC vehicles is specified in Part 2AC of Schedule 5.

The additional fee is payable at the same time as the fee payable in respect of an application for a licence for a motor vehicle or for the issue of trade plates (as the case may be).

The fee payable for the issue of a replacement certificate or licence or a duplicate registration plate is specified in Part 6 of Schedule 5.

The fee payable for the issue of a replacement registration plate under regulation 60 is the same as the fee specified in Part 5 of Schedule 5 for the issue of a registration plate.

The fee payable for the issue of replacement reflectorised plates under regulation 62 is the same as the fee specified in Part 5 of Schedule 5 for the issue of ordinary plates.

The administration fees payable for the issue of duplicates and replacements are specified in Part 6A of Schedule 5.

The Registrar may waive, refund, or rebate any administration fee payable under these regulations by any person or class of persons if the Registrar considers that to do so would be commercially or otherwise advantageous to the Crown.

An instrument granting a waiver, refund, or rebate is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements), unless it relates only to 1 or more individually identified motor vehicles or named persons.

The fees (if any) payable for any request for information under section 236(1)(a)(ii) of the Act are the reasonable cost of deciding whether to grant the request and, if granted, making the information available, having regard to the cost of labour and materials involved.

The fees payable for information that is supplied about a specified motor vehicle under section 237(1) of the Act or under an authorisation granted under section 241 of the Act are specified in Part 7 of Schedule 5.

The Registrar may—

The fee payable for endorsement on the register of motor vehicles of a change of registered person is specified in Part 8 of Schedule 5.

The fee is payable by the person—

The Registrar may discount the fee specified in item 2 of Part 8 of Schedule 5 if the person liable to pay the fee, while not being a motor vehicle trader registered under the Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003, is a person who is otherwise engaged in trading motor vehicles.

The Registrar may waive the fee if the person liable to pay the fee is the survivor or one of the survivors of a jointly registered person who is giving notice under regulation 50(2)(b).

At the same time as an applicant sends the answers to the questions to the Secretary in accordance with Part 6, the applicant must pay the Secretary the application processing fee specified for the applicant in Part 9 of Schedule 5.

The Secretary may remit or refund the whole or part of a fee paid under this regulation on any of the following grounds:

The fees specified in Schedule 5 are exclusive of any goods and services tax payable under the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985.

If a person becomes registered in respect of, or becomes the owner of, a motor vehicle of which the licence has expired,—

For the purposes of subclause (1), the date on which the person became the owner means the date—

In the case of a licence to be issued for a period of less than a year, the annual licence fee, the additional annual licence fee, and the accident insurance levy must be reduced by one three-hundred-sixty-fifth for each day by which the period is less than 1 year.

The Registrar may recover an unpaid fee, an accident insurance levy, a motor vehicle (synthetic greenhouse gas) levy, or a penalty for late payment from the person described in subclause (2) as a debt due to the Crown.

The person is a person who fails to pay all or part of a fee, an accident insurance levy, a motor vehicle (synthetic greenhouse gas) levy, or a penalty to the Registrar that the person is obliged to pay under this Part.

Unless otherwise specified in these regulations, any fee, accident insurance levy, or motor vehicle (synthetic greenhouse gas) levy payable under this Part is payable to the Registrar.

A person commits an offence if the person uses information to which the person has access by virtue of a notice published under section 241(1) of the Act—

A person commits an offence if the person impersonates another person in order to apply under section 236 of the Act for access to personal information relating to the other person.

For the purposes of any application or notification under Part 17 of the Act or under these regulations, a person commits an offence if the person supplies to the Registrar (or to any person who is to make any such application or notification) any information that the person knows or ought to know is false or misleading in any material particular.

A person commits an offence if the person operates a motor vehicle in contravention of section 242(1) of the Act by driving or using it on a road if the motor vehicle—

A person commits a stationary vehicle offence if the person operates a motor vehicle in contravention of section 242(1) of the Act by causing or permitting it to be on a road or driven on a road if the motor vehicle—

In proceedings for an offence against subclause (1) or (2) that relates to an unregistered and unlicensed motor vehicle, it is a defence if the defendant proves that the motor vehicle—

However, the defence provided by regulation (3)(d) or (f)(i) is not available if the trailer—

In proceedings for an offence against subclause (1) or (2) that relates to an unlicensed motor vehicle, it is a defence if the defendant proves that—

In proceedings for an offence against subclause (1) or (2) that relates to the affixing and display of registration plates and a current licence, it is a defence if the defendant proves that,—

To avoid doubt, any existing licence issued in respect of a vehicle specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Transport (Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1994 before this regulation comes into force is valid until it expires under the law in force immediately before this regulation comes into force.

For the purposes of subclause (3)(f), agricultural operations—

For the purposes of subclause (7), 2 farms are to be treated as adjoining if they are contiguous, or are contiguous except for a separation by a river, stream, drain, canal, or other watercourse, or by a road, motorway, or railway.

In proceedings for an offence relating to displaying a heavy RUC vehicle trade plate for a motor vehicle that is not a heavy RUC vehicle (within the meaning of the Road User Charges Act 2012), it is a defence if the defendant proves that—

A person commits an offence if the person, in contravention of section 242(2) of the Act, fails to—

In proceedings for an offence against subclause (1), it is a defence if the defendant proves that an exemption in respect of the motor vehicle under regulation 20 was in force at the time of the alleged offence.

A person commits an offence if—

A person commits an offence if the person applies for a licence for a motor vehicle whose registration has been cancelled, unless—

A person commits an offence if the person operates a motor vehicle for which a licence fee and accident insurance levy have been paid that are lower than the licence fee and accident insurance levy payable for motor vehicles of that class or use.

A person who commits an offence against subclause (1) is liable to pay, in addition to any costs of collecting the fee under regulation 72, the amount of the difference between—

A person commits an offence if the person fails to notify the Registrar of particulars in accordance with section 247 of the Act.

In a prosecution for an offence against subclause (1), it is a defence if the defendant proves that the defendant notified the Registrar of the required particulars within 7 days of the sale or acquisition.

A person commits an offence if the person fails to give the Registrar the notification required under regulation 6(1) or 18.

A person commits an offence if the person uses a trade plate—

A person commits an offence if the person operates a motor vehicle by driving or using it on a road if the motor vehicle—

A person commits a stationary vehicle offence if the person operates a motor vehicle by causing or permitting it to be on a road if the motor vehicle—

In proceedings for an offence against subclause (1) or (2) that relates to the display of a registration plate that is not authorised to be affixed to the motor vehicle, it is a defence if the defendant proves that personalised plates—

A person commits a stationary vehicle offence if the person—

A person commits an offence if the person operates a motor vehicle by driving or using it on a road if the motor vehicle has affixed to it any registration plate or licence that is in any way obscured, or is rendered or allowed to become not easily distinguishable, whether by night or by day.

A person commits a stationary vehicle offence if the person operates a motor vehicle by causing or permitting it to be on a road if the motor vehicle has affixed to it any registration plate or licence that is in any way obscured, or is rendered or allowed to become not easily distinguishable, whether by night or by day.

A person commits—

In proceedings for an offence against this regulation, it is a defence if the defendant proves that the motor vehicle was operated on a road only while being taken directly to a place of repair or inspection for the purpose of repair or obtaining evidence of vehicle inspection.

A person commits an offence if the person removes, obscures, or renders indistinguishable a notice affixed to a motor vehicle under section 248 of the Act, unless—

A person commits an offence if the person fails to surrender a registration plate or facsimile plate to the Registrar when required to do so under section 257(4) or section 265(1) of the Act.

A person commits an offence if the person fails to surrender a registration plate or licence to the Registrar when required to do so under regulation 10, 43(8), 44(5), 60(3)(c), or 61.

The fact that a motor vehicle is operated without having registration plates affixed to and displayed on it in accordance with these regulations is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, sufficient evidence that the motor vehicle is not registered in accordance with Part 17 of the Act.

The fact that a motor vehicle is operated without having a valid licence affixed to and displayed on it in accordance with these regulations is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, sufficient evidence that the motor vehicle is not licensed in accordance with Part 17 of the Act.

For the purposes of this regulation, valid licence means a current licence or a licence issued for the motor vehicle that is to come into force within the next month.

A person who commits an offence against a provision of these regulations is liable on conviction—

An offence against a provision of these regulations for which an infringement fee is specified in the table in Schedule 6 is an infringement offence against the Act.

The infringement fee for an infringement offence against a provision of these regulations is—

For the purposes of section 139 of the Act, an infringement notice for an infringement offence against a provision of these regulations and a reminder notice in respect of an infringement notice must be in the form prescribed in Schedule 1 of the Land Transport (Infringement and Reminder Notices) Regulations 1998.

The demerit points for infringement offences against certain provisions of these regulations are specified in the table in Schedule 7.

The following regulations and notice are revoked:

The regulations set out in Schedule 8 are amended in the manner set out in that schedule.

Regulation 19(1)(c) and Part 3 of Schedule 2 expire with the close of 1 August 2011.