Being asked for your address when on the road

I have been through the process of 'residential address' with Motor Reg in most States.

They will not accept an application for rego or licence if you do not have a place of residence in their State. (Place of residence is NOT a caravan, camper or m/home 'on the road').
If you reside in any of the States and sell your home and go on the road, then you must advise Motor Reg of the 'change of address'. Failure to do so may result in heavy penalties as your 3rd party Insurance is also affected.
If you advise Motor reg. that you are going on a 2yr trip around Australia and ask them about the status of your reg (in State where reg and licence issued) they willl advise you that you must change your reg & lic to which ever State you are residing after approx. each 90 days.

There are legal implications for failing to notify authorities of chnages of address. It is possible that your licence and rego may also be deemed as 'invalid' which will also attract penalties. There is no easy and lawful way around this dilema.

There may be those who advocate lying to authorities and advise you to just give them the address of a family member or mate. Technically this may also be illegal if you are not residing there - which of course you won't be because you are 'on the road'. My biggest concern is if things go 'pear shaped' in another State, (not your registered State) that you are confronted with both unregistered/uninsured vehicle(s) and you are also unlicenced.

Good points.
I was wondering what the issues were with saying I live with relative X, and then knowing my luck having a legal issue and get caught.

Another gem from our federation of states. Roll on a national licensing system.

Cheers

Queesnland will accept a reciept from a caravan park as address.

What makes a place your place of residence??? We used our friends as our address for three years. All our mail went through them, our licence address was listed as there. That was where we had some of our stuff stored so that was where we lived. When we spoke to the electrol commission and told them we were on the road we were told because we where on the road full time they took us off the roll and we did not have to vote for 3 years. All our bills went through our friends.
"DIO" I don't see how saying you live with relatives/ friends is lying. The gov agencies need an address so give them the next best thing to where you live, most of them say to use friends or family. What defines where you live...where you are or where all your crap is stored lol.
One other thing.. to redirect mail simply tape your letters together and write "please redirect to .....(the address where you are). Don't put a new stamp on it.

Josh

We are registered with the Electoral Office as being "No fixed address" for mail we use our PO Box in Townsville and important mail is either redirected to us or scanned and emailed to us.
The Electoral Office also accepted our sons address as our voting address/electorate we were told that we could use our old address (even though I told them the house was no longer ours) as our voting address. We are on the road full time but are in constant contact with our son & his family and stay there in our van for a week or two at least once per year year.
The RACQ Insurance people accepted the above information at the time when I insured our van & tug with them in December 2009.
Regards
PeteM

Depends on the legal arrangements between the different Agencies.

The ATO has a lot of powers, usually more than the Agencies themselves

They may be able to access info from other Agencies and possibly even State authorities.

They would need to be able to show cause why the information would need to be accessed. They wouldn't (shouldn't) be able to go 'fishing'

I know centre link are able to check on your tax returns to see if you have any undeclared income.

I joined up in 97 and by then we had to change rego/licenses every posting. Was still like that when I got out in 2007

Matt WA , Well there you go , things have changed , 6 yrs and 4 states and not once required to change licence details though that was in the late 70s and early 80s. Remember at one stage had Wife and the kids in married quarters in Melbourne Vic - car rego and licence in NSW and I was in Qld for 7 mths all at the same time ,,

When I was posted to 7MD in Darwin in the late 70's the DoT fellows would drive around the married quarters, in the suburbs were not allowed on base of course, and check the no plates would come back in 3 months and if they had not been changed send you a little note hahahahaha

Alloy c/t - I joined in '71 and retired in 2003 and what you say held true to a point from around the late 80s (when Ros Kelly was the Minister for Def Personnel) until I retired in the States/Territories I was in NSW/VIC/ACT/QLD - your licence and rego were valid regardless until such time as they expired and then you had to renew in your new location. AFAIK it still holds today but will check up tomorrow - I still work for Defence in another somewhat less demanding (and stable - no postings!) capacity that when I was in uniform:-)

Could get arrested for an incorrect address

it doesnt exist

Highway 1 doesnt enter the 6000 post code
- should be 6100 which is the vic park interchange, as close as it gets to perth

but yea there is no issue using teporary address for a WA license. i have used a caravan park and a pistol club before as addresses

I've had that conversation and was informed as I answered the questions put to me honestly, (I had spent the previous night on highway 1, at a wayside stop) it was then up to the RTA official to ascertain it is not a home, they used my Victoria mail box to deliver all my relevant 'paperwork' to me.

It lasted till 2005, when I did have a 'normal' home address.
I was booked for speeding with that address, the Police officer did not ask where it was, just did the paperwork and I paid it before anyone had the chance to ask questions.

I keep the old plastic license as a memento of a great lifestyle :-))

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