7Some vehicles to be registered under this Act

7. Some vehicles to be registered under this Act

(1) Subject to the provisions of any notice published pursuant to subsection (3) all vehicles driven or used in an area of the State to which this subsection applies, other than —

(a) vehicles for the time being licensed under the Road Traffic (Vehicles) Act 2012; or

(b) vehicles used exclusively on private land by consent,

are required to be registered under this Act.

(2) A person must not —

(a) fail to register a vehicle required to be registered under this Act; or

(b) drive or use, or permit to be driven or used, a vehicle required to be registered under this Act and which is not so registered.

(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Government Gazette, provide that the requirements of subsection (1) do not apply —

(a) to or in relation to persons or vehicles, or classes of persons or kinds of vehicles, specified in that notice either generally or by description; or

(b) at any specified time, or in relation to any specified area of the State, place or circumstance,

and may by a subsequent notice vary or cancel any such notice.

[Section 7 amended: No. 8 of 2012 s. 64; No. 8 of 2025 s. 14 and 15.]