New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRANSPORT (VEHICLE REGISTRATION) REGULATION 2017 - REG 52

52 Purposes for which trader's plates may be used

(cf 2007 reg cl 46)

(1) The use of a registrable vehicle to which a trader's plate is affixed on a road or road related area is an authorised use if the vehicle (or in the case of a trailer, the vehicle by which it is drawn)--

(a) is conveying the trader to whom the plate has been issued or the trader's authorised employee or agent, and is being driven--

(i) for a purpose connected with its manufacture or repair or connected with a dealing in the vehicle, or

(ii) for a purpose connected with a service provided in relation to unregistered registrable vehicles that is incidental to the manufacture or repair of, or dealings in, those vehicles, being a service that Transport for NSW is satisfied requires the use of trader's plates, or

(iii) to the nearest convenient registry for registration by the most direct or convenient route, or

(iv) for delivery at the address of a person who has acquired it from such a trader, or

(b) is being test driven by a prospective purchaser who is in possession of a written authorisation to drive the vehicle issued by the trader to whom the plate has been issued or by the trader's authorised employee or agent.

(2) Nothing in subclause (1) authorises the use on a road or road related area of a registrable vehicle to which a trader's plate is affixed for the carriage of a load unless--

(a) the load is carried solely for the purpose of demonstrating to a genuine prospective purchaser the capacity of the vehicle for carrying a particular type of weight of loading, or

(b) the vehicle is being driven by the most direct or convenient route to the premises of the trader to whom the plate has been issued from the place at which the trader has manufactured or purchased the vehicle and the loading consists solely of a registrable vehicle manufactured or purchased by such a trader for sale by the trader, or

(c) the vehicle is a trailer specially constructed for the carriage of a boat and the loading consists solely of a boat, or

(d) the vehicle weighs not more than 2 tonnes unladen and is being driven--

(i) by the shortest practicable route to the premises of the trader from the place at which the trader has manufactured or purchased the vehicle and the loading consists solely of goods that are intended for the trader's personal use or for use in his or her business as a trader, or

(ii) solely for carrying spare parts (being spare parts for use in connection with the repair of registrable vehicles by such a trader) to the trader's premises from a railway station or airport to which they have been consigned to the trader.

(3) A person must not authorise an individual to test drive on a road or road related area an unregistered registrable vehicle to which a trader's plate is attached unless--

(a) the person is the trader to whom the trader's plate has been issued or is the trader's authorised employee or agent, and

(b) the person reasonably believes the individual to be a genuine prospective purchaser, and

(c) the person has made a record of the individual's name and address, and

(d) the person has provided the individual with a written authorisation to drive the vehicle.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(4) In this clause--

"trader's authorised employee or agent" means an employee or agent of the trader duly authorised in writing.