AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) ACT 1999
ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) (NUMBERPLATE FEES) DETERMINATION 2002

DISALLOWALBE INSTRUMENT DI 2002 - 88

This instrument has the effect of determining fees, payable in advance, for transactions relating to numberplates and registration numbers under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulations 2000.  

All numberplate fees have been increased by CPI, rounded down to the nearest 50c.  

A new fee has been introduced for the remake of a single plastic motor vehicle plate.  This fee is $50.00 and reflects the manufacturing and administrative cost of making a single plastic numberplate.  Prior to the introduction of this fee, a plate owner had to pay for the remake of a set of two plastic plates (currently costing $83.50), even if only one plate was required.  

The transfer of rights fee for a ‘personalised’ motor bike numberplate has been reduced from $157 to $0.  This is to correct an anomaly, in which the cost to transfer a car personalised plate is $0, but when the motorcycle personalised plate was introduced a $157 transfer of rights fee was determined.  The transfer of rights fee for car personalised plates was not increased to $157, as it had been $0 for many years prior to the introduction of the motorcycle personalised plates. 

Four ‘new’ fees have been introduced in this Determination in relation to personalised plates for motor vehicles other than motor bikes.  These fees apply to ‘extras’, specifically:
•	the inclusion of a slogan;
•	the manufacture of the plate in the metal slimline format;
•	the manufacture of the plate in plastic; and
•	the manufacture of the plate in the plastic slimline format.  

These fees, based on corresponding fees for plate remakes, have been charged for several years but have not previously been made explicit in the determination.  These ‘extras’ are included in the sale of rights fees for other plates such as custom plates, which generally attract a much higher sale of rights fee than personalised plates.  

Also added in this year’s determination is the fee for a remake of a set of Centenary of Federation numberplates, $56.  This fee was omitted in error in the 2001 determination.  

The fee for the addition of a slogan and/or logo on a numberplate, $188.00, has been itemised separately in this determination.  In previous years the fee was ‘hidden’ in a composite of two fees, the fee to remake a numberplate in plastic and the fee to add a slogan and/or logo.  The separation of these fees makes them much clearer.