Is registration payable on a sold bike??

**paturoa** · 22nd June 2007, 20:28

Here is the situation....

I decided to sell my GS1000 last year and finaly did a few weeks back.

Anyway today arrives a letter from Baycorp saying I owe $153.63.

Meh???

So I called them up and they said that this is the amount payable between when the registration expired and the new owner took over, and that because I didn't respond to the letters from LTSA saying my rego had expired I have to pay them.

WTF

So I said that I would go back to LTSA and do the cancel / hold on rego whatever for teh in between period as I wasn't using the bike on the road which is true.

Anyone else had this (did a search and couldn't find anything on it).

The baycorp person wanted to argue with me and was quite rude really. When I asked for her name she just hung up.

**onearmedbandit** · 22nd June 2007, 20:35

You (the seller) are liable for any registration fees owing up until the date of change of ownership.

**rwh** · 22nd June 2007, 20:37

Originally Posted by paturoa

Here is the situation....

I decided to sell my GS1000 last year and finaly did a few weeks back.

Anyway today arrives a letter from Baycorp saying I owe $153.63.

Meh???

So I called them up and they said that this is the amount payable between when the registration expired and the new owner took over, and that because I didn't respond to the letters from LTSA saying my rego had expired I have to pay them.

WTF

So I said that I would go back to LTSA and do the cancel / hold on rego whatever for teh in between period as I wasn't using the bike on the road which is true.

Anyone else had this (did a search and couldn't find anything on it).

The baycorp person wanted to argue with me and was quite rude really. When I asked for her name she just hung up.

That all matches my understanding, since Continuous Vehicle Licensing came in. That's the whole point of the Rego on hold thing (Exemption from Continuous Licensing, form MR24 - I filled one in yesterday) - that you do that rather than just letting it expire. But you have to do it before it expires, or you're still liable for the time in between.

Richard

**stag21** · 22nd June 2007, 20:47

Yep same thing happened to me when I traded a bike in .The dealer left it in my name until he sold it 6 monthes later.The same bitch rang me from Baycorp .
I told her to fuck of ,week later got ring from her manager told him to fuck of and take me to court.
Week later got call from lsa and it took about a month before they accepted the fact they were not going to get it out of me, but instucted me on how to do it next time.

**blacksheep** · 22nd June 2007, 21:10

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

You (the seller) are liable for any registration fees owing up until the date of change of ownership.

what he said,you'll just have to bite the bullet and pay mate

**Steam** · 22nd June 2007, 21:12

Then find the other guy, make him pay you back. It's his responsibility for the time when he had it too.

**Madness** · 22nd June 2007, 21:54

Write Baycorp a cheque for $153.63.

I wouldn't bother trying to recover your losses, the law is against you. Baycorp must be making squillions out of this.

**Kinje** · 22nd June 2007, 22:58

Yeah, I think you need to apply for the exemption at the time the rego expired, and you are liable for fees up till when you transfer the ownership

LTNZ Factsheet 49
Exemptions must be applied for in advance. They take effect from when your current licence (or existing exemption) expires. If the motor vehicle isn't licensed, the exemption will start from the application date.

I've sold an unlicensed vehicle

You are liable for any outstanding licensing fees up to the date the change of ownership is processed. Normal debt collection practices are employed to recover outstanding licence fees.

Their emphasis

Sorry dude, it doesn't look to good

**Hawkeye** · 22nd June 2007, 23:55

I paid a guy in work $100 for an old CBX250. I changed the ownership and he then received a $135 bill for the back payment of the reg. He was not happy. It would have been cheaper to scrap the bike.

**nadroj** · 23rd June 2007, 07:10

Hold rego can be done online at no cost.

**rwh** · 23rd June 2007, 11:43

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

I paid a guy in work $100 for an old CBX250. I changed the ownership and he then received a $135 bill for the back payment of the reg. He was not happy. It would have been cheaper to scrap the bike.

He'd still be liable, I think, on filling in the disposal form - or if/when they caught up with him.

Richard

**Macktheknife** · 23rd June 2007, 12:36

Originally Posted by nadroj

Hold rego can be done online at no cost.

But not if the charges have been passed on tho.

**Renegade** · 23rd June 2007, 13:54

just pay man or it will ruin your credit rating for ages, those credit dudes are RUTHLESS!!!!

**mazz1972** · 25th June 2007, 15:46

Originally Posted by Steam

Then find the other guy, make him pay you back. It's his responsibility for the time when he had it too.

The bill will be from the time it expired, to the time the ownership was changed.....so the new owner isn't liable for any of it assuming the change of ownership was done straight away.