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Register your vehicle or motorcycle

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

Register a vehicle

  • New registration
  • Brand changes to your registration
  • Employ for a common due date

New registration

You need to utilise for a new registration in Queensland when:

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

Watch the post-obit video or employ our registration assist tool for a quick look at how to register a used lite motor vehicle or motorcycle.

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

Step 1: Make certain you take evidence of identity for all of the registered operators and show of where the car will be garaged in Queensland.

If you don't accept a Queensland driver licence or another card issued by the Department of Send and Principal Roads, yous will demand to bring other forms of ID, like an Australian birth certificate, credit carte du jour and Medicare card.

Footstep 2: If your car is unregistered, you need to contact a compulsory third party insurance provider and go a CTP insurance certificate. You need to keep the certificate in the car when you drive to become your inspections and certificates and when yous come to register it.

If you need to drive the auto for any other reason, like repairs, you lot will need to purchase an unregistered vehicle permit. Use our online service to buy i.

Step 3: Get a Queensland safety document, formerly known every bit a roadworthy, from an approved inspection station. Get 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 besides demand a document from a gas installer.

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

Step 4: One time you take everything you demand, bring your documents and car into see one of our friendly staff at a client service center and we volition go y'all on the road. If you would like more information on any of the steps in this video go to the Queensland Government website and use our registration help tool or call xiii 23 fourscore. And remember, drive safely.

Registering a new or used motor vehicle

When you buy a new or used vehicle from a motor dealer, generally they will arrange registration and compulsory third party (CTP) insurance for you. You will need to provide evidence of identity such as your current driver licence. If y'all are eligible for a registration concession brand sure you let the dealer know and provide proof to enable the dealer to include the concession. Y'all can't take a concession on 2 vehicles at the same fourth dimension for some concession types.

If a motor dealer has not bundled registration of your vehicle, or if you purchase a vehicle privately, the new registration must exist washed at a send and motoring service centre. If you live in a rural area yous can visit a QGAP function, Magistrates Courtroom or local police force station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to ostend earlier visiting. If you have not already done so, check that the vehicle is unencumbered (i.eastward. does not have an existing loan or finance fastened to information technology) by searching the Personal Property Securities Annals (PPSR).

You can't apply for a new registration via Transport and Principal Roads online services.

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

Pre-registration inspection

You must have the vehicle with you because it may need to exist inspected before it tin be registered.

Light motor vehicles with a gross vehicle mass (GVM) of iv.5t or less and motorcycles may require a pre-registration inspection to ostend the vehicle's identity.

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

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

Pre-registration inspection services for motor vehicles are only offered at some transport and motoring service centres. If yous alive in a rural surface area you tin can visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Courtroom or local police station that provides these services—please telephone call to confirm earlier visiting.

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

Driving your motor vehicle to be registered

If your vehicle is currently registered in some other state or territory and the number plate/s are fastened, you have 14 days to register your vehicle in Queensland and may be fined if you don't. This will permit you fourth dimension to go a prophylactic document or certificate of inspection and then register your vehicle at a ship and motoring service center. If yous live in a rural area you can visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please phone call to confirm before visiting.

If your vehicle is unregistered and you need to drive on the route to annals it, yous cannot legally drive the vehicle unless you lot are carrying a CTP insurance certificate. In add-on, whatever number plate/s on the vehicle must be removed or yous may exist fined. This will allow you to drive your vehicle to get a safety certificate or document of inspection and and so to a transport and motoring service centre. If you live in a rural surface area you can visit a QGAP part, Magistrates Court or local constabulary station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.

It is acceptable for you to drive the vehicle back to its garaging accost if information technology is not possible to register the vehicle on that 24-hour interval due to insufficient time or to get other registration requirements that were non able to be obtained.

Towing your motor vehicle on a trailer to be registered

If you lot are towing your vehicle on a trailer to exist registered, you tin pay for your CTP insurance when you register your vehicle.

Registration checklist

If you are registering a vehicle at a transport and motoring service heart, you no longer need to consummate a vehicle registration application (F3518).

However, if yous are attending a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides registration services, you will all the same demand to complete a vehicle registration application (F3518). If it's your first time doing business with united states, yous volition as well demand to complete a new customer application (F3503).

You will demand to:

  • provide an original copy of your electric current Queensland safety document or certificate of inspection:
    • handwritten certificates—bring the original bluish copy (safety certificate) or pinkish (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'southward garage address (F4362)—such equally current driver licence, rates detect, gas, electricity or phone bills, or a depository financial institution argument issued within the final 6 months
    • if yous are unable to provide a garage address, you lot can complete the Queensland garage address statement form (F4408)
  • provide evidence of your identity—such as your current commuter licence
  • pay the vehicle registration fees
  • pay vehicle registration duty unless exempt.

You may too need the post-obit:

  • If you lot are driving your vehicle to get it registered—the original CTP insurance document (6 or 12 month registration menstruum) from a licensed insurer. Your vehicle must have CTP insurance comprehend earlier you can legally drive information technology on the road.

Annotation: if your vehicle volition exist used for more than than 1 purpose, the CTP insurance grade with the higher premium is applicative. If y'all are considering 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 sheet.
  • If your vehicle is a repairable write-off—you will need a written-off vehicle inspection.
  • If your vehicle uses gas or is fitted with gas fittings or systems—you will need a gas inspection certificate that is less than iii months one-time issued by an authorised installer:
    • you lot may exist granted an exemption if you are unable to obtain a gas certificateif there is no one authorised to result gas inspection certificates within a reasonable distance of your residence
    • new vehicles that have manufacturer-installed gas fittings or systems do not demand a gas inspection certificate.
  • If your vehicle has a gross vehicle mass over 4.5t—a weighbridge certificate or other acceptable evidence of the vehicle's tare (unladen) weight is needed. View a current list of Queensland public weighbridge stations.

Make changes to your registration

Registration accost

If you need to change your registration address, and your registration is due for renewal, you must change the address before paying for the renewal.

To modify your registration accost, you tin:

  • use our online service
  • phone thirteen 23 fourscore
  • write to Section of Transport and Master Roads
    PO Box 2211
    BRISBANE QLD 4001
  • visit a transport and motoring service centre. If yous live in a rural surface area y'all can visit a QGAP part, or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—delight call to ostend before visiting.

    Annotation: if a vehicle is registered to an arrangement instead of a person, you lot tin't use our online service to change its registration address.

Compulsory third party insurance or input tax credit entitlement

To alter your CTP insurer or input taxation credit entitlement y'all tin can:

  • use our online service
  • call 13 23 80
  • write to Section of Ship and Main Roads
    PO Box 2211
    BRISBANE QLD 4001
  • visit a transport and motoring service eye. If you live in a rural area you can visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.
  • contact your preferred CTP insurer earlier your adjacent registration renewal who will notify us on your behalf.

Change of vehicle details/vehicle modifications

If you have changed your vehicle's details or y'all've had a modification made to your vehicle you must complete a alter of vehicle particulars notification (F3524) and social club it at a ship and motoring service centre. If y'all live in a rural surface area you can visit a QGAP office, or local police station that provides registration services—delight call to confirm before visiting. You lot must bring your modified vehicle with you to be inspected and too bring evidence of your identity.

The details y'all are changing or the modifications y'all make may affect the price of your registration fee and/or CTP insurance—if they do, you volition need to pay the difference before the changes will come into issue.

Go more information about light vehicle modifications.

Changes to purpose of use

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

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

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

Irresolute your vehicle'south purpose of use may touch on the cost of your CTP insurance—if it does, you will need to pay the difference before the changes will come into consequence.

Other changes

To make other vehicle changes not listed here, or to change your proper noun, you will need to visit a ship and motoring service centre. If you lot live in a rural area you tin visit a QGAP part, or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to ostend before visiting.

Apply for a common due date

If you have 5 or more vehicle registrations or 2 or more heavy vehicle registrations with the aforementioned Send and Master Roads Customer Reference Number (CRN) you can apply to accept a common due engagement and so all your registrations elapse on the aforementioned day. You can't have a common due date with a 1, three or 6-month pay term, or if your registrations are renewed through directly debit. Common due dates tin't be applied to boats.

You can have more than 1 common due engagement only you must accept at least v or more vehicle registrations or two or more heavy vehicle registrations for each mutual due engagement at all times, otherwise the mutual due appointment will automatically expire on your CRN.

How to apply

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

  • visit a transport and motoring service middle. If y'all live in a rural area, you can visit a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local constabulary station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.
  • write to Transport and Main Roads
    Central Operations and Support
    Common Due Date Officer
    GPO Box 2211
    Brisbane Qld 4001
  • email CDD@tmr.qld.gov.au

Yous will need to provide:

  • the name of the arrangement, company/business name, or private name/south
  • your CRN, Australian Company Number (ACN) or Australian Business concern Number (ABN) if known
  • the preference for your common due date (delight provide more than 1 date every bit your first selection may be unavailable), or additional dates if yous require more than 1 mutual due date. The about suitable common due engagement volition be chosen from the dates provided

    Note: the following dates cannot be used:

    • 28 and 29 February
    • i July
    • 31 December
    • All dates in June and October
  • a list of the registrations to be attached to each common due date
  • the name of the private or joint registered operators—the request must be signed by all parties to ensure they all hold to having their registrations on a common due engagement
  • a signed request if a company/business concern requires a common due date—signed either by the arrangement's proprietor, armada manager or someone in authority on visitor letterhead.

Note: a common due date cannot be removed or added to a registration via Transport and Principal Roads online services.

Contact Transport and Main Roads to discover out more about a mutual due engagement via electronic mail CDD@tmr.qld.gov.au or 13 23 80.

Terminal updated:
29 November 2021