Transferring Rego - NT to NSW

Maybe if you spell out what your friend said...... then we can make a judgement on information available on that info.

AFAIK there are no peculiarities, as states and territories all fall under the same law.


Cheers

Registration can't be transferred from State to State, the registration should be cancelled in NT & then the vehicle registered in NSW.
Technically you can't drive it back to NSW without a temporary permit, although some vendors will let you drive the vehicle back & then post back the plates.

Would the NSW RTA be a good starting point?

After all they alledgedly wrote the rule book and they are the ones you need to keep happy.

May I suggest you go to or ring a NSW RTA heavy vehicle inspection station for advice. My experience of NSW rego is these people actually have to know the rules. They are dealing with truck and bus rego requiring a level of professionalism above the normal registry office.

Geoff

Strewth, I break out in a cold sweat everytime I recall my experience with this. I moved from Canberra to Batemans Bay in 1994, necessitating a change in rego. At the time I owned a petrol Ford Maverick on gas.

I fronted up to the RTA and waited for about half an hour in a queue (this was to become a regular occurence over the coming days/weeks).

When I finally got to the counter and explained what I was doing, the nice lady said I needed to get a "pink slip". I asked what and where I could get one of these and she informed me I needed to go to a mechanical workshop to have the vehicle "roadworthied". She gave the names of few local shops where i could get this done and I duly proceeded to get my "pink slip".

Another lengthy wait for service with my old ACT rego papers in hand and my nice new pink slip......get to the counter and the same lady said in a very matter-of-fact voice: "where is your "green slip". I said I didn't know I needed a "green slip"..... what is it and where do I get it from. Answer came that it was for 3rd party insurance and i could get it only from the local NRMA office (at the local Ford dealership).

Hmmm, somewhat frustrated that this sheila hadn't told me about the "green slip" at the same time she told me about the "pink slip", I trundled off to the Ford shop. Shelled out some more money and had my "pink slip" and my nice new "green slip" in my hot little hands....then back to the RTA.

Another lengthy queue: get to the counter and as she started to go through the paperwork, she sees that my rig is hooked up to LPG......" Where's your "blue slip"? " she says. Okay, I'm usually a pretty bloody patient sort of bloke, but I blew it now!!! "What the f*** is a damned "blue slip" and why didn't you mention it to me before?" I asked in a rather frustrated tone of voice. "Sir, your vehicle runs on LPG so you need to have the gas system certified for use in NSW" (or words to that effect). "How many more colours of the rainbow do you have forms for? I may as well get the whole friggin lot while I'm at it".....

Anyway, as it turned out, it stopped after I had the 3 forms filled out and shelled-out bucks to various businesses in the Bay.....

Talk about bloody frustrating!!!!!! GRRRR....still makes my blood boil.
Roachie

Colin,

I hope it's an easier process than my brother recently experienced going from Vic TO Qld.

Had to get a safety certificate for EVERYTHING he wanted to register in QLD.
Car 1: Safety Cert and Gas Certificate
Car 2: Safety Cert
Box trailer: Safety Cert
21 ft Caravan: Safety Cert and Gas Cert.-bought the van 3 weeks before in Vic -had to redo all then had to be taken into the Dept of Transport office so they could "measure" the van

Not only in this a time consuming exercise with all having to go to an approved inspection station than to the Dept of Transport but also costly with I think each certificate for vehicle/van coming in at $130 a pop at least. As if Rego fees arn't bad enough without all that carry on.

When they moved to Vic 5 years prior it was a matter of swapping it all over when they got there.

To me that seems to be abit of a revenue raising exercise and a time waster!!