Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section, upon application made in accordance with the approved form by the owner of a motor vehicle or trailer, a Registration Authority shall register the motor vehicle or trailer in the name of the owner if:
(a) the application is accompanied by the prescribed fee;
(b) the owner tenders the following amounts in respect of the motor vehicle or trailer:
(i) the whole of the charge in respect of the registration of the motor vehicle or trailer;
(iia) the amount of any fee charged by the regulations in respect of a function performed by a Regulatory Authority in or in connection with the registration of the motor vehicle or trailer;
(iii) the amount of any charge due and payable by the owner in respect of any previous registration of the motor vehicle or trailer;
(c) the motor vehicle or trailer is not, under the regulations, exempt from inspection and the owner produces the motor vehicle or trailer for inspection by the Registration Authority or a person authorised in writing by the Registration Authority to act under this paragraph;
(d) the motor vehicle or trailer complies with requirements prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 13(a) or section 37;
(e) otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (d), the motor vehicle or trailer is not, and is not likely to be, dangerous or unsafe; and
(f) the requirements of regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 13(c) relating to insurance have been met in respect of the motor vehicle or trailer.
(2) A Registration Authority may refuse to register a motor vehicle or trailer if the owner of the motor vehicle or trailer has not complied with requirements prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 13(b).
(3) Subject to subsection (4), registration comes into force on the day on which it is granted and remains in force:
(a) in a case to which paragraph (b) does not apply--for one year; or
(b) in a case where:
(i) the owner, in the application for registration, requests registration for a period of less than one year, being a period specified in the regulations; and
(ii) the application is accompanied by the prescribed fee, being a fee additional to the fee referred to in paragraph (1)(a);
for the period requested by the owner.
(4) Where application is made for the re‑registration of a motor vehicle or trailer that is already registered, the re‑registration may be expressed to come into force immediately after the existing registration ceases to be in force.
(5) A Registration Authority, in exercising the power conferred by subsection (2), shall have regard only to:
(a) the safety of the public; and
(b) the need to ensure compliance with this Act and the regulations.
(6) Where there are 2 or more owners of a motor vehicle or trailer, those owners may, by notice in writing in accordance with the approved form signed by each of them and given to a Registration Authority, nominate one of the owners as being the representative owner of the motor vehicle or trailer.
(7) Subject to subsections (9) and (10), where:
(a) there are 2 or more owners of a motor vehicle or trailer; and
(b) the motor vehicle or trailer is registered in the name of a person in respect of whom a nomination is in force under subsection (6) in relation to the motor vehicle or trailer;
the motor vehicle or trailer shall be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be registered in the names of each of the owners.
(8) Subject to subsections (9) and (10), where:
(a) a document relating to a motor vehicle or trailer is required or permitted by this Act (other than subsection (6)) or the regulations to be served on, or given to a Registration Authority by, the owner of a motor vehicle or trailer;
(b) there are 2 or more owners of the motor vehicle or trailer; and
(c) a document relating to the motor vehicle or trailer is served on, or given to a Registration Authority by, a person in respect of whom a nomination under subsection (6) is in force in relation to the motor vehicle or trailer;
the document shall be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have been served on, or given by, as the case may be, each of the owners.
(9) Where:
(a) a person has been nominated under subsection (6) in relation to a motor vehicle or trailer; and
(b) one of the owners of the motor vehicle or trailer, by notice in writing in accordance with the approved form given to the Registration Authority, revokes that nomination;
that nomination ceases to be in force.
(10) Where:
(a) a person has been nominated under subsection (6) in relation to a motor vehicle or trailer; and
(b) a person ceases to be, or becomes, one of the owners of the motor vehicle or trailer;
that nomination ceases to be in force.
(11) Where:
(a) there are 2 or more owners of a motor vehicle or trailer; and
(b) an application for registration of the motor vehicle or trailer is not accompanied by a nomination under subsection (6) in relation to the motor vehicle or trailer;
a Registration Authority may refuse to register the motor vehicle or trailer.