Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person must not use, or permit or allow a person to use, an unregistered registrable vehicle, or a vehicle with suspended registration, on a road or road related area.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the use of an unregistered registrable vehicle on a road or road related area if—
(a) the vehicle is of a kind prescribed by a regulation mentioned in section 17 (Regulations may exclude vehicles and people from Act) as a vehicle exempt from this Act; or
(b) the use is otherwise permitted under this Act.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a registrable vehicle left parked on a road or road related area—
(a) within 15 days after the vehicle ceases to be registered or to be exempted from being registered or its registration is suspended; or
(b) with the permission of the responsible person for the road or area.
(4) In this section:
"registrable vehicle" includes—
(a) an incomplete or partly constructed registrable vehicle; and
(b) the remains of a registrable vehicle.
"responsible person", for a road or road related area where a vehicle is left parked, means—
(a) if a person other than the owner of the road or area has care, control and management of the road or area—that person; or
(b) in any other case—the owner of the road or area.