Page 4032 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 23 November 1993

MINISTER FOR URBAN SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO: 1011

Motor Vehicle Registrations

Mr Cornwell -asked the Minister for Urban Services: -

(1) How long is allowed for new residents of the ACT to transfer their .

(a) motor vehicle registration; and -

(b) number plates from another state to the ACT?

(2) What procedures .exist to chase up outstanding or overdue interstate registrations that have not

beer transferred?

(3) Has any estimates been made of revenue lost because of registrations not being transferred?

(4) Is registration of a "typical family car" less or more expensive in the ACT relative to each other

Australian state? _

Mr Connolly .- the answers to the Members questions are as follows:

(1) Under current legislation, new ACT residents have three months in which to transfer their

interstate vehicle registration or number plates to the ACT.

(2) A mechanism to follow up motorists who move to the ACT but maintain an interstate .

registration does not exist.

(3) No.

(4) It is more expensive than the Northern Territory and South Australia, but less expensive than all

other states.