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Annals your vehicle or motorcycle

Motor vehicles and motorcycles (including mopeds and tricycles) used on Queensland roads must be registered.

Register a vehicle

  • New registration
  • Make changes to your registration
  • Apply for a common due date

New registration

You lot need to apply for a new registration in Queensland when:

  • buying a new vehicle that has never been registered
  • ownership a used unregistered vehicle
  • moving from another country or territory
  • if your registration has expired more than three months ago.

Watch the following video or use our registration help tool for a quick look at how to register a used low-cal motor vehicle or motorcycle.

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Video transcript

Exercise you have a used car that is unregistered or registered interstate? Proceed watching and I'll tell you how to register it in Queensland.

Footstep 1: Make certain you accept show of identity for all of the registered operators and evidence of where the automobile volition exist garaged in Queensland.

If you don't have a Queensland driver licence or another card issued by the Section of Transport and Main Roads, you lot will need to bring other forms of ID, similar an Australian nascence certificate, credit card and Medicare card.

Pace two: If your car is unregistered, yous demand to contact a compulsory third party insurance provider and get a CTP insurance certificate. You need to proceed the certificate in the car when you drive to get your inspections and certificates and when you come to annals it.

If you need to bulldoze the motorcar for any other reason, like repairs, you will need to purchase an unregistered vehicle permit. Utilise our online service to buy i.

Step 3: Get a Queensland condom document, formerly known as a roadworthy, from an approved inspection station. Become to our website to find one.

If your car has been written-off, information technology needs to be inspected by the Queensland Inspection Service.

And if it has a gas fuel system or has gas appliances you'll also need a certificate from a gas installer.

Finally, if your car has been modified you'll demand to get a modification plate from an approved person.

Step 4: In one case you have everything y'all need, bring your documents and automobile into see ane of our friendly staff at a customer service middle and we volition get y'all on the road. If you would like more information on any of the steps in this video become to the Queensland Government website and use our registration help tool or call thirteen 23 fourscore. And recall, drive safely.

Registering a new or used motor vehicle

When you buy a new or used vehicle from a motor dealer, by and large they will conform registration and compulsory third party (CTP) insurance for you. You volition need to provide evidence of identity such as your current driver licence. If yous are eligible for a registration concession make sure you let the dealer know and provide proof to enable the dealer to include the concession. You can't accept a concession on 2 vehicles at the same time for some concession types.

If a motor dealer has not arranged registration of your vehicle, or if you buy a vehicle privately, the new registration must be washed at a transport and motoring service centre. If you live in a rural surface area yous tin visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting. If yous have not already washed then, check that the vehicle is unencumbered (i.e. does not have an existing loan or finance attached to it) past searching the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR).

You tin't apply for a new registration via Send and Main Roads online services.

To register a vehicle in Queensland, refer to the registration checklist and take these items with you lot when registering your vehicle.

Pre-registration inspection

You must take the vehicle with you considering it may need to be inspected before information technology can be registered.

Low-cal motor vehicles with a gross vehicle mass (GVM) of 4.5t or less and motorcycles may require a pre-registration inspection to confirm the vehicle's identity.

A pre-registration inspection must be conducted on all heavy motor vehicles with a GVM over iv.5t to ensure the vehicle complies with Australian Pattern Rules.

Pre-registration inspection services for heavy motor vehicles can be done by an accredited person nether the Heavy Vehicle Registration Assessment Scheme.

Pre-registration inspection services for motor vehicles are only offered at some ship and motoring service centres. If you live in a rural area you tin can visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides these services—please telephone call to ostend before visiting.

Heavy Vehicle Registration Assessment Scheme accredited persons cannot perform inspections for imported motor vehicles that have never been registered in Australia before. This must be washed by the Department of Transport and Main Roads.

Driving your motor vehicle to be registered

If your vehicle is currently registered in another state or territory and the number plate/due south are attached, y'all take 14 days to register your vehicle in Queensland and may exist fined if y'all don't. This will let you fourth dimension to get a rubber certificate or certificate of inspection and and so register your vehicle at a transport and motoring service centre. If you alive in a rural surface area you can visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.

If your vehicle is unregistered and y'all need to drive on the road to annals information technology, you lot cannot legally drive the vehicle unless you are conveying a CTP insurance document. In addition, any number plate/s on the vehicle must exist removed or you may be fined. This will allow yous to bulldoze your vehicle to get a safety certificate or document of inspection and then to a transport and motoring service centre. If you lot live in a rural area you tin can visit a QGAP part, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—delight call to confirm before visiting.

It is acceptable for you to drive the vehicle back to its garaging address if it is not possible to register the vehicle on that day due to insufficient time or to go other registration requirements that were not able to be obtained.

Towing your motor vehicle on a trailer to exist registered

If you are towing your vehicle on a trailer to be registered, you can pay for your CTP insurance when you register your vehicle.

Registration checklist

If you are registering a vehicle at a send and motoring service centre, y'all no longer need to complete a vehicle registration application (F3518).

All the same, if you lot are attending a QGAP part, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides registration services, you will still need to complete a vehicle registration application (F3518). If information technology'southward your start fourth dimension doing business with usa, yous will as well need to complete a new client application (F3503).

You will need to:

  • provide an original copy of your current Queensland safety certificate or certificate of inspection:
    • handwritten certificates—bring the original blue copy (safe certificate) or pink (certificate of inspection) copy
    • electronic certificates—bring a printed copy or write the certificate number on the vehicle registration application
  • provide evidence of the vehicle's garage accost (F4362)—such as current driver licence, rates notice, gas, electricity or telephone bills, or a bank argument issued within the concluding 6 months
    • if you are unable to provide a garage address, yous tin complete the Queensland garage address statement grade (F4408)
  • provide show of your identity—such as your current driver licence
  • pay the vehicle registration fees
  • pay vehicle registration duty unless exempt.

You may also need the following:

  • If you lot are driving your vehicle to become it registered—the original CTP insurance certificate (6 or 12 month registration period) from a licensed insurer. Your vehicle must have CTP insurance cover earlier you can legally drive it on the road.

Annotation: if your vehicle volition be used for more than 1 purpose, the CTP insurance class with the higher premium is applicable. If you are because renting your vehicle, it is advisable to contact your CTP insurer.

  • If your vehicle is a heavy vehicle with a GVM over 4.5t and your vehicle has had a pre-registration inspection completed by an accredited person—you will need the applicable pre-registration vehicle inspection canvass.
  • If your vehicle is a repairable write-off—you lot will need a written-off vehicle inspection.
  • If your vehicle uses gas or is fitted with gas fittings or systems—you volition demand a gas inspection certificate that is less than three months quondam issued by an authorised installer:
    • you may be granted an exemption if you are unable to obtain a gas documentif there is no one authorised to issue gas inspection certificates inside a reasonable distance of your residence
    • new vehicles that have manufacturer-installed gas fittings or systems exercise not demand a gas inspection certificate.
  • If your vehicle has a gross vehicle mass over 4.5t—a weighbridge document or other adequate evidence of the vehicle'due south tare (unladen) weight is needed. View a current list of Queensland public weighbridge stations.

Brand changes to your registration

Registration accost

If y'all need to change your registration address, and your registration is due for renewal, you lot must change the accost before paying for the renewal.

To change your registration address, you tin can:

  • employ our online service
  • phone 13 23 80
  • write to Department of Ship and Main Roads
    PO Box 2211
    BRISBANE QLD 4001
  • visit a transport and motoring service centre. If y'all live in a rural surface area you tin can visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.

    Note: if a vehicle is registered to an system instead of a person, yous tin't use our online service to change its registration address.

Compulsory third party insurance or input tax credit entitlement

To change your CTP insurer or input taxation credit entitlement yous can:

  • apply our online service
  • call 13 23 eighty
  • write to Section of Transport and Main Roads
    PO Box 2211
    BRISBANE QLD 4001
  • visit a send and motoring service eye. If y'all live in a rural area you tin visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.
  • contact your preferred CTP insurer before your next registration renewal who will notify us on your behalf.

Change of vehicle details/vehicle modifications

If you accept changed your vehicle's details or yous've had a modification fabricated to your vehicle you must complete a change of vehicle particulars notification (F3524) and guild it at a send and motoring service eye. If you alive in a rural area you can visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides registration services—please phone call to confirm before visiting. Yous must bring your modified vehicle with you to be inspected and as well bring prove of your identity.

The details you are changing or the modifications you make may affect the cost of your registration fee and/or CTP insurance—if they do, you will demand to pay the difference before the changes will come into event.

Get more data nigh light vehicle modifications.

Changes to purpose of apply

The purpose of use listed on a vehicle's registration describes how it is allowed to be used. Common purposes of utilise include:

  • private
  • commercial
  • dealer
  • licensed tow truck
  • non-profit utilise
  • taxi
  • driver trainer and tuition
  • booked hire
  • booked hire rental.

To change from one purpose of apply to some other, you must bring evidence of your identity and consummate a alter of vehicle particulars notification (F3524) and lodge it at a transport and motoring service centre. If you lot live in a rural expanse you tin visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.

Changing your vehicle's purpose of utilise may affect the cost of your CTP insurance—if it does, you lot will demand to pay the divergence before the changes will come up into outcome.

Other changes

To make other vehicle changes not listed here, or to alter your name, you will demand to visit a ship and motoring service middle. If you live in a rural area y'all tin can visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—delight telephone call to confirm before visiting.

Apply for a common due date

If you lot have 5 or more than vehicle registrations or 2 or more heavy vehicle registrations with the same Transport and Main Roads Customer Reference Number (CRN) y'all tin can utilise to accept a mutual due appointment so all your registrations expire on the aforementioned day. You can't have a common due date with a 1, 3 or 6-month pay term, or if your registrations are renewed through direct debit. Common due dates can't be applied to boats.

You can accept more than 1 common due date simply you must have at to the lowest degree 5 or more vehicle registrations or two or more heavy vehicle registrations for each common due date at all times, otherwise the mutual due date will automatically elapse on your CRN.

How to apply

To utilize for a common due date, an system or individual can:

  • visit a ship and motoring service centre. If yous alive in a rural area, you can visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Courtroom or local law station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.
  • write to Transport and Chief Roads
    Central Operations and Support
    Mutual Due Date Officer
    GPO Box 2211
    Brisbane Qld 4001
  • email CDD@tmr.qld.gov.au

You will need to provide:

  • the name of the system, visitor/business name, or individual name/s
  • your CRN, Australian Visitor Number (ACN) or Australian Business Number (ABN) if known
  • the preference for your mutual due date (delight provide more than 1 date as your first pick may exist unavailable), or additional dates if you lot crave more than one common due date. The most suitable common due date will exist chosen from the dates provided

    Note: the following dates cannot be used:

    • 28 and 29 February
    • one July
    • 31 December
    • All dates in June and October
  • a listing of the registrations to be attached to each common due engagement
  • the name of the individual or joint registered operators—the request must exist signed by all parties to ensure they all agree to having their registrations on a common due date
  • a signed request if a company/business requires a common due date—signed either by the organisation'due south proprietor, fleet director or someone in authority on company letterhead.

Note: a mutual due date cannot exist removed or added to a registration via Ship and Principal Roads online services.

Contact Transport and Main Roads to find out more about a common due date via electronic mail CDD@tmr.qld.gov.au or 13 23 eighty.

Last updated:
29 November 2021