Vehicle Inspection Schemes across Australia.
All across Australia there are multiple differing vehicle inspection schemes. If you’re planning on a move interstate, or maybe you’re selling or buying a car interstate, it’s easy to get caught out. Let’s take a quick look at how the vehicle inspection schemes across Australia vary.
Inspection schemes? Sounds boring.
You’re not wrong there! But we’ll break it down into the short and sweet version of what the regulations are for each state and territory. We won’t dive too much into heavily modified vehicles because in those cases you’ll likely need to go have a chat with an engineer to get your vehicle signed off, regardless of where you are in the country.
Scroll down to find your state or territory if you’re just after the bits that apply to you!
The summary, if you made it this far.
Congratulations for slogging through that! Hopefully it helps to clean up some of the confusion about what you need to do to get your car transferred to another state or if you’re buying/selling a vehicle from interstate. Most car dealerships will help you through the process if you’re buying through a dealer network.
We’ve made sure this information is as up-to-date as it can be at the time of writing. However, you know the guv'ment, they keep changing things to keep us on our toes. Be sure to do your homework and check out the local state government pages to make sure you don’t get caught out!
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