New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRANSPORT (VEHICLE REGISTRATION) REGULATION 2017 - REG 38

38 Obligations of disposers: application for transfer of registration and notification to TfNSW

(cf 2007 reg cl 33)

(1) A person, or the agent of a person, who disposes of a registered registrable vehicle must, immediately after disposing of the vehicle--

(a) complete an application for transfer of registration as disposer in the form approved for that purpose by Transport for NSW and sign it, and

(b) give the completed form to the acquirer.

(2) If the person or agent is a motor dealer, the person or agent must also, immediately after disposing of the vehicle, notify Transport for NSW of the following--

(a) the full names and addresses of the following persons--

(i) if the motor dealer is an agent for another person--the person on whose behalf the vehicle has been disposed of,

(ii) the person who has acquired the vehicle,

(b) the date of the disposal,

(c) the registration number of the vehicle.

(3) This clause does not apply to the passing of possession of a registrable vehicle--

(a) under any hiring (not being a hiring under a hire-purchase agreement) or under any lending (not being a lending under a lease agreement) of a registrable vehicle, or

(b) to an agent for the purposes of sale or disposal, or

(c) to a bailee for the purpose of alteration, repair, renovation, garaging, storing or any other similar purpose not involving the use of the vehicle for the benefit of the bailee, or

(d) in accordance with an order of a court in Australia or with any other legal process.