Vic Defect – Qld License And Rego

[Nismo_Boy]

Can anyone give me a 100% definitive answer on what the situation is with a defect in Victoria in a QLD registered car and a QLD licensed driver?

Both VIC roads and QLD transport are “cagey” to say the least in just what happens. I assume there is some form of national data base? However, again both VIC and QLD cannot confirm nor deny – VIC roads cannot even check a QLD license status unless they were to call QLD transport I'm told?

I assume one would take the VIC ticket and either pay in VIC? (VIC calls QLD so points come off QLD license??) or pay in QLD and they call VIC etc?

Bit lost as to what actually happens.

Thanks

[Ruffels]

go back to qld, and rip the sticker off as you cross the boarder... thats what i would do

[adznight]

Agreed. They'll catch up with you if it's serious and then you play innocent.

[RCHOO]

Can anyone give me a 100% definitive answer on what the situation is with a defect in Victoria in a QLD registered car and a QLD licensed driver?

Both VIC roads and QLD transport are “cagey” to say the least in just what happens. I assume there is some form of national data base? However, again both VIC and QLD cannot confirm nor deny – VIC roads cannot even check a QLD license status unless they were to call QLD transport I'm told?

I assume one would take the VIC ticket and either pay in VIC? (VIC calls QLD so points come off QLD license??) or pay in QLD and they call VIC etc?

Bit lost as to what actually happens.

Thanks

Did you get booked as well as defected ?

If you have been booked well you will need to pay that. No question

But as for the defect i would not stress that much. Coz what maybe a defect here in vic may not be a defect interstate.

Rip ya sticker of and dont get pulled over till ya go home.

[R31Nismoid]

I know with licensing and fines/speeding etc all you do is pay the fine itself and the points do not get carried over to your respective state.

Id imagine any fines for anything else to be the same, however the defect itself IMO would be like the points - no carried over so no drama's

[Ant97GTR]

As per what others have said, if you got a driving infringement it needs to be paid. However if you have a QLD car it cannot be defected by a victorian police officer. Thanks to Australias system where each state has its own rules in regard to car mods (I'm NOT talking about ADR's here) a vic police officer cannot defect a QLD car and vice versa. Therefore the defect should be null and void.

The only bit that may get you into trouble is if you have moved to vic from Qld....by law you are required to change your drivers licence and car rego after 3 months. If they find out you are living here with a qld rego'd car you will be in trouble.

Do not use this advice as gospel and chase it up with the police.

[Taso84]

If u dont clear the defect, then u won't be able to drive the car in Vic but in other states it will be ok.

Thats what i was told by a police officer once but I was abit sceptical.

[frx026]

I know with licensing and fines/speeding etc all you do is pay the fine itself and the points do not get carried over to your respective state.

if the fine he received has points attached to it, the points will be transferred from vic to qld.

the defect however is invalid once your over the border.

[R31Nismoid]

The points are not - certainly not for speeding etc etc.

[frx026]

demerit points are transferred between states. Unfortunately I have a driving record to prove it.

but, for those that want the low down. heres the link to qld transport..

http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/Home/Licen...demerit_points/

Licence demerit points

If you commit a demerit points offence anywhere in Australia, the demerit points allocated for the offence may be recorded on your traffic history.

Your traffic history is a record of all of your road rules related offences, as well as any drink-driving, drug-driving, dangerous driving or vehicle registration offences which you have committed in Australia.

The demerit points set for the offence are taken to have been allocated on the day that you committed the offence, as soon as you have either:

paid the fine set for the offence

or

been dealt with by a court for the offence.

[R31Nismoid]

Myself and two friends have never had any point carried over...

I guess where it says "may be", means not always.

[Travis Trayhern]

i have had a friend get pulled over and got a warning defect of $130 per defect. so they dont defect you but give you a fine and warning per defectable item, his car was just to low so it was a easy $130

SA rego and driving in VIC

[Adz]

Living in QLD on a VIC licence and VIC rego I can tell you first hand that the points do not get deducted off my VIC licence and they can not defect my car. They have told me this when i got pulled over for speeding and on another occasion for "making exsissive noise" both of which are 3 point penalties in QLD. They said the systems are not linked. Im sure if I was doing something totally stupid they would call up and ask for the points to be deducted.

All monetary penalties must be paid. I do think the VIC and NSW systems are linked.

[Damo_c]

Living in QLD on a VIC licence and VIC rego I can tell you first hand that the points do not get deducted off my VIC licence and they can not defect my car. They have told me this when i got pulled over for speeding and on another occasion for "making exsissive noise" both of which are 3 point penalties in QLD. They said the systems are not linked. Im sure if I was doing something totally stupid they would call up and ask for the points to be deducted.

All monetary penalties must be paid. I do think the VIC and NSW systems are linked.

Not being a smart arse but why wouldnt they be linked around all territories and states. What this is saying is that an interstate driver can come to vic and get busted doing 120kmh in a 100 zone all day long with only a fine to pay on each offence (20kms over being not that harsh off an offence. I find this hard to beleive. Surely points would have to be deducted!!

[some_cs_student]

Not being a smart arse but why wouldnt they be linked around all territories and states. What this is saying is that an interstate driver can come to vic and get busted doing 120kmh in a 100 zone all day long with only a fine to pay on each offence (20kms over being not that harsh off an offence. I find this hard to beleive. Surely points would have to be deducted!!

Yes, but I'm sure repeat offenders would be treated differently to the once-off offender.

And its probably on a per state basis, for example Victoria may not take care of the transfer of points if you get fined in QLD or something, old legacy government systems that are probably not linked together.

I'm sure if you got caught multiple times in a particular timeframe there might be an issue there

[abacusnow]

"What this is saying is that an interstate driver can come to vic and get busted doing 120kmh in a 100 zone all day long with only a fine to pay on each offence"

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rdonlyre...ndfines0910.pdf

View the costings. You get enough demerit points to spare... cash is harder to come by.

Edited August 5, 2009 by abacusnow

[Damo_c]

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rdonlyre...ndfines0910.pdf

View the costings. You get enough demerit points to spare... cash is harder to come by.

Yes this is true but wouldnt it be easier to hide from teh vic gvment for not paying a fine in S.A or QLD if they wernt linked then what it would be if they were???. Think of how many people dont pay speeding fines???

[R31Nismoid]

Not being a smart arse but why wouldnt they be linked around all territories and states. What this is saying is that an interstate driver can come to vic and get busted doing 120kmh in a 100 zone all day long with only a fine to pay on each offence (20kms over being not that harsh off an offence. I find this hard to beleive. Surely points would have to be deducted!!

It was more the point to provide information to the contrary that was earlier posted.

[Damo_c]

It was more the point to provide information to the contrary that was earlier posted.

ok then

1. A vic police officer can do a licence check on a qld licence ( i rem this from when i used to listen to my scanner)so YES they would be able to see how many points you have left. I dont know about vicroads themselves if they can check it for you.

2. I may be wrong here cos i havent had a fine in a while but dont you pay a fine via bpay or at a post office?? That way it wouldnt matter where you pay the fine, it would still go to the vic gvment coffers.

3. I may be wrong again but a defect notice remains in the state of where that defect took place. As in your case it happened in vic, which means your car is still roadworthy in other states, just not vic.

[llama_au]

The only speeding fine I've ever had was in SA on VIC rego, I paid the fine but the points were never carried over.