Div 4Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles

Division 4—Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles 30—Duty to notify alterations or additions to vehicles (1) For the purposes of section 44(1) of the Act, the following alterations and additions are prescribed: (a) an alteration of, or addition to, a motor vehicle by which the vehicle's mass is increased; (b) an alteration of, or addition to, the specifications or tyres of a motor vehicle by which the GCM or GVM of the vehicle is varied; (c) an alteration of the configuration of a heavy vehicle by which the configuration becomes an unregistered configuration within the meaning of section 43A of the Act; (d) an alteration of, or addition to, the engine by which a motor vehicle is driven so as to enable the engine to drive the vehicle by a fuel that would not, but for the alteration or addition, drive the vehicle; (e) the removal of the engine by which a motor vehicle is driven and the substitution of another engine; (f) the removal of a pneumatic tyre from a motor vehicle having only pneumatic tyres, and the substitution of a tyre other than a pneumatic tyre; (g) the removal of a tyre from a vehicle having no metal tyres, and the substitution of a metal tyre; (h) the attachment of a sidecar to a motor bike not having a sidecar; (i) an alteration or addition by which a motor vehicle that is not a commercial motor vehicle is converted into a commercial motor vehicle; (j) an alteration or addition by which a commercial motor vehicle ceases to be a commercial motor vehicle; (k) the wrecking or disassembling of a motor vehicle (other than a notifiable vehicle) where the engine, a part of the engine bearing the engine number or a part of the body bearing a vehicle identification number or vehicle identification plate is removed and not put back into place as part of the vehicle; (l) the removal, alteration, defacement or obliteration of— (i) a vehicle identification plate or vehicle identification number (other than a plate or number of a notifiable vehicle); or (ii) an engine number, except where, in relation to the removal of a vehicle identification plate (or a plate bearing a vehicle identification number or engine number), the plate is put back into place on the vehicle; (m) the changing of the colour of a motor vehicle such that the vehicle ceases to be of the primary colour recorded as its colour in the register of motor vehicles. (2) A registered owner or registered operator of a motor vehicle who gives written notice to the Registrar under section 44(1) of the Act must include the following particulars in the notice: (a) a full description of the alteration or addition; (b) the date on which the alteration or addition was made; (c) if the engine by which the vehicle is driven has been removed and substituted by another engine— (i) the substituted engine number; or (ii) in the case of the substitution of an engine that does not have identical specifications—the make, the number of pistons, the diameter of the cylinders, the engine number and the type of substituted engine; (d) if an alteration has been made to the construction of the vehicle—a weighbridge note; (e) if any alteration or addition has been made that may vary the gross combination mass or gross vehicle mass of the vehicle—the size, ply and type of construction of the tyres; (f) details of any equipment that has been altered or added to the vehicle.