Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations(1) This section applies in relation to an application for the registration of a registrable vehicle if the vehicle identifier for the vehicle is the same as the vehicle identifier for a vehicle that is recorded as having been written-off (the "relevant record") in—
(a) the written-off vehicles register; or
(b) an approved corresponding WOVR and the road transport authority has notice of the relevant record in the corresponding register.
(2) If the relevant record indicates that the vehicle is a statutory write-off, the road transport authority must refuse to approve the application for the vehicle's registration.
(3) If the relevant record indicates that the vehicle is a repairable write-off, the road transport authority must refuse to approve the application for the vehicle's registration unless the authority is satisfied that—
(a) the vehicle is the original vehicle to which the vehicle identifier was assigned; and
(b) the vehicle was a registered vehicle when it became a written-off vehicle; and
Note 1 A vehicle is a registered vehicle if it is registered in the ACT under the
title="A1999-81">Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1999.
Note 2 A reference to an Act includes a reference to the statutory instruments made or in force under the Act, including any regulation (see href="http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/2001-14" title="A2001-14">Legislation Act
, s 104).
(c) the vehicle complies with the applicable vehicle standards.
(4) However, subsection (3) does not apply if the vehicle has been re-registered, or the vehicle's registration has been renewed, since the relevant record was made.
(5) In this section:
"repairable write-off"—see the href="http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/sl/2000-13" title="SL2000-13">Road Transport (General) Regulation 2000
"statutory write-off"—see the href="http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/sl/2000-13" title="SL2000-13">Road Transport (General) Regulation 2000