Ticket for no warrant

[MrMelon]

I brought the bike into work this morning and parked it in the bike park outside since I was booked into get my warrant re-checked at lunchtime after getting all the work done in the weekend (it passed its warrant). Went to take the bike to get the warrant at lunchtime, and there was a fucking $200 ticket for not displaying a current wof on it.

Is this bullshit or what? I should be able to get off it shouldn't I?

[wkid_one]

Yup - they can apparently ticket you for this. You should be able to get off it piece of piss tho

[Mongoose]

Definately worth the 45c it csts for a write in. Try and get the garage to back you up that the bike was booked in.

[spudchucka]

I brought the bike into work this morning and parked it in the bike park outside since I was booked into get my warrant re-checked at lunchtime after getting all the work done in the weekend (it passed its warrant). Went to take the bike to get the warrant at lunchtime, and there was a fucking $200 ticket for not displaying a current wof on it.

Is this bullshit or what? I should be able to get off it shouldn't I?

Who issued it? Police or the local authority?

[MrMelon]

It was issued by the local council.

[sAsLEX]

good luck getting off it, as long as you have evidence of getting/going for your warrent in the arvo they will let you off, I didn't have such reciept as it was just a mate doing some work on it so ended up having to pay

[rodgerd]

I brought the bike into work this morning and parked it in the bike park outside since I was booked into get my warrant re-checked at lunchtime after getting all the work done in the weekend (it passed its warrant). Went to take the bike to get the warrant at lunchtime, and there was a fucking $200 ticket for not displaying a current wof on it.

Is this bullshit or what? I should be able to get off it shouldn't I?

Generally you can avoid the ticket if you were on the way to get the warrant.

[MrMelon]

Well I don't have a copy of the warrant sheet, but I might send a photocopy of the new warrant tag in with it.

[Hoon]

It was issued by the local council.

Good luck!!!...if it were the Police you would have gotten off easily but Council nazis are a little different. If your warrant is more than a few weeks overdue then you'll need more than luck.

If its recent then send in a copy of your passed WOF form and also any job sheet/receipts for the work done in the weekend. Don't forget an ass-kissing letter too! Thats the best you can do and even then its not a sure thing.

[Eddieb]

I had the same happen a few years ago in wellington. I got a copy of the job sheet from the shop which showed dates and times, plus I had a receipt from paying for the warrant with times on it.

I sent copies of all of those into the council and they let me go.

[Motu]

Well I don't have a copy of the warrant sheet, but I might send a photocopy of the new warrant tag in with it.

Date of failure and issue will be on the computer,but I doubt if they would go to the trouble of looking it up - no customer copy of checksheet? that's your responsability and I hope whoever did the check charged you $7 for failure to produce - it's in the VIRM.You are allowd to opperate at vehicle without a current WoF coming or going to a place of repair - means you're ok.

[spudchucka]

Had you previously failed a WOF inspection?

How long expired was the warrant? Over 1 month?

[MrMelon]

Yeah I failed the warrant last week and got the work done over the weekend to fix it up.

The warrant was expired by just over a month, but that's cos I was out of action for a couple of months with a broken leg.

[Deano]

Good luck!!!...if it were the Police you would have gotten off easily but Council nazis are a little different.

Achtung mein fuhrer - hey Hoon, we're not all Nazis, but Cycosis does refer to me as Fritz sometimes. (Im not in parking though).

[spudchucka]

Yeah I failed the warrant last week and got the work done over the weekend to fix it up.

The warrant was expired by just over a month, but that's cos I was out of action for a couple of months with a broken leg.

After failing a warrant you are entitled to a reasonable amount of time to get the repairs done - about one month is reasonable. If you still have the form from the failed inspection then you have proof of inspection from one week previous. This in its self should be enough to get you off the fine but keep a copy of the invoice and inspection sheet from the second trip to the garage, (where you obtained a warrant) because as I understand your post that is on the same day as you were issued the ticket. The two inspection sheets a week apart from one another show that you have taken reasonable steps to get your bike sorted out and I would be surprised if the ticket stands.

By the way the offence for having an expired warrant is actually "No evidence of inspection". The original inspection done is evidence of inspection even though your bike failed the inspection, it was nevertheless inspected.

Bottom line is don't pay the fine, you shouldn't have got it in the first place.

This highlights the problem with local councils writing tickets for warrants and regos because they have no interaction with the people involved and thats why in a previous thread about speed cameras I have said that councils should not be allowed to operate them. They should stick to parking tickets because thats as much as their intelects can handle and you can't apply the same thought processes, (or lack of them) to more complicated issues.