Ticket cost for riding with rego on hold?

[rossirep]

hi im just wondeing what is the cost if you get pulled over and you have put your bike reg on hold, is the ticket the same price as a no reg ticket.. somewhere around the $200 mark... cheers,

[FJRider]

hi im just wondeing what is the cost if you get pulled over and you have put your bike reg on hold, is the ticket the same price as a no reg ticket.. somewhere around the $200 mark... cheers,

$200 fines will be levied by parking wardens, but police can issue a reduced $150 fine plus 20 demerit points if the vehicle is unregistered or the licence is on hold. If caught again, you must surrender your plates.

[hayd3n]

$150 and 35 demerits now i believe

[hellokitty]

More important - your insurance won't be valid if the bike is not registered. Even if someone else hits you, you will be liable for damage as you are illegally on the road

[Owl]

Even if someone else hits you, you will be liable for damage as you are illegally on the road

Don't think so!

[trustme]

More important - your insurance won't be valid if the bike is not registered. Even if someone else hits you, you will be liable for damage as you are illegally on the road

I always understood that the insurance industry regarded rego as a govt tax issue, as long as the bike had a wof it was insured . Mind you it is hard to get a wof on an unregoed bike.

[oneofsix]

I always understood that the insurance industry regarded rego as a govt tax issue, as long as the bike had a wof it was insured . Mind you it is hard to get a wof on an unregoed bike.

Other way round. It is hard to get a rego (impossible) on an unwarranted bike. Law is you must have current WOF before you can get Reg.

[shrub]

$200 fines will be levied by parking wardens, but police can issue a reduced $150 fine plus 20 demerit points if the vehicle is unregistered or the licence is on hold. If caught again, you must surrender your plates.

That's a good heads up. My rego is on hold but I ride every day, so if/when I get pinged I'll pay my $150 and stick some rego on. My original plan was to leave it unregistered indefinitely and treat tickets as discounted rego. So far I have had rego on hold since Sept, so in my calculations I have saved around $300.00 and even if I get pinged this morning I'm still ahead.

My experience is that cops have only ever pulled me up when I have been doing something they don't like, so if I play by the rules I'll be fine.

[oneofsix]

My experience is that cops have only ever pulled me up when I have been doing something they don't like, so if I play by the rules I'll be fine.

Until you get caught in one of their spot checks or by one of the new fancy smart camera thingees. Good luck.

[Swoop]

More important - your insurance won't be valid if the bike is not registered. Even if someone else hits you, you will be liable for damage as you are illegally on the road

Unfortunately this is not true.

I phoned my insurer and spoke with the boss. His exact words were "DON'T pay it! You are covered as long as you have a current WoF".

It is merely a tax and does not contribute to the safety of the bike.

[Macontour]

My experience is that cops have only ever pulled me up when I have been doing something they don't like, so if I play by the rules I'll be fine.[/QUOTE]

You may play by the rules but you could also get pinged by a parking Nazi while parked at the side of the road!

[sleemanj]

More important - your insurance won't be valid if the bike is not registered. Even if someone else hits you, you will be liable for damage as you are illegally on the road

Insurance Law Reform Act 1977, Section 11

The absence or presence of a current vehicle licence (rego), or Warrant of Fitness, does NOT in general affect ones insurance. BY LAW. Doesn't matter what your contract says (and it won't say different anyway) because you can not contract out by law.

You can have a WOF and be denied insurance claim because you drove on bald tyres, you can not have a WOF and be granted insurance claim because somebody ran into the side you, in either case, the having or not having of a WOF makes no difference.

Same goes, even more so, for a current vehicle licence (rego) which has no bearing on the risk to the insurer in respect of the claim.

[sil3nt]

Insurance Law Reform Act 1977, Section 11

The absence or presence of a current vehicle licence (rego), or Warrant of Fitness, does NOT in general affect ones insurance. BY LAW. Doesn't matter what your contract says (and it won't say different anyway) because you can not contract out by law.

You can have a WOF and be denied insurance claim because you drove on bald tyres, you can not have a WOF and be granted insurance claim because somebody ran into the side you, in either case, the having or not having of a WOF makes no difference.

Same goes, even more so, for a current vehicle licence (rego) which has no bearing on the risk to the insurer in respect of the claim.

I don't see why this is so hard for people to understand. I swear it gets explained on here twice a week.

[shrub]

Until you get caught in one of their spot checks or by one of the new fancy smart camera thingees. Good luck.

Yeah, that and the parking nazis are a potential problem, but so far so good and at this stage I don't think they have the camera jobbies down here, and the last time I got pulled up at a spot check they were only interested in piss. My run will end, and when that happens I'll have to cough, but fingers crossed it will be a while yet.

Ironically I have slowed down a lot since I put my rego on hold, so in a roundabout way I am a more law abiding rider.

[pritch]

That's a good heads up. My rego is on hold but I ride every day,

I found this interesting.

Since the bike spent most of last winter in the shed unused, I thought I would put the rego on hold this winter.

Belatedly the thought occurred that I'm shortly switching to part time work, so every weekend will be a long weekend. Maybe on that basis I could get out a bit more this winter.

Then I saw your comment, another option. Not sure if I could do the law abiding riding thing well enough though.