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Motor Vehicles Act 1949
107BTemporary permit where configuration of Territory or interstate
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107B Temporary permit where configuration of Territory or interstate
heavy vehicle altered
(a) a vehicle of a kind to which the Road Transport Charges Laws
apply or to which, if the vehicle were required to be registered
in the Territory, those Laws would apply, has been registered
under this Act or a corresponding Act of a State or another
Territory of the Commonwealth relating to the registration of
motor vehicles (a corresponding Act);
(b) the owner, or a person authorised by the owner, intends to
alter the configuration of the vehicle from that in which it is
registered under this Act or the corresponding Act;
(c) if the vehicle had been, at the time at which the vehicle was
registered under this Act or the corresponding Act, registered
in the altered configuration, a charge would have been
payable under the Act under which the vehicle was registered
greater than the amount already paid for its registration
(including an amount paid in accordance with this section in
respect of the vehicle) under that Act; and
(d) in the case of a vehicle:
(i) registered under this Act – it is intended to alter the
configuration of the vehicle for a period of 3 months or
less or other than for the balance of the registration of
the vehicle; or
(ii) registered under a corresponding Act – it is intended to
alter the configuration of the vehicle for a period of
3 months or less,
the owner of the vehicle, or a person authorised by the owner, may
apply under this section to the Registrar for a temporary permit in
relation to the vehicle.
(2) Where:
(a) an application is made to the Registrar in the approved form
providing such particulars as the Registrar requires; and
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(b) the relevant fee, determined in accordance with
subsection (3), and the prescribed fee, if any, have been paid,
the Registrar may issue a temporary permit in relation to the
vehicle, permitting the vehicle to be driven, in the altered
configuration specified in the permit, during the reconfiguration
period, being a period less than 3 months, specified by the
Registrar on the permit.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the relevant fee in relation to a
vehicle is, for each week, or part of a week, commencing on the
first day of the reconfiguration period, 1/52 of the difference
(a) the amount that, at the time of the issue of the permit, is
payable under this Act for 12 months registration of the vehicle
in the configuration in which it has been registered under this
Act or the corresponding Act; and
(b) the amount that, at the time of the issue of the permit, is
payable under this Act for 12 months registration of the vehicle
in the altered configuration,
taking into account any applicable reduction or concession under
this Act.