Historic & prescribed left-hand vehicles registration

Historic and prescribed left-hand drive vehicles may be

• conditionally registered to obtain reduced fees
  
• registered for periods of 1, 2 or 3 years
  
• driven on a road for up to 90 days during any 1 year period of registration.

A vehicle registered as a historic or prescribed left-hand drive may not be driven for hire, fare or reward.

To qualify for reduced fees, the owner of the vehicle must be a financial member of a historic vehicle club that is recognised by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles for this purpose.

Before the start of each journey, details of the journey must be recorded in a Log Book.
Log Books must be

• issued by the recognised historic vehicle clubs
  
• in a form approved by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles
  
• carried in the vehicle at all times during a journey.

Definitions (for the purpose of the Motor Vehicles Act and Regulations)

A historic vehicle

• is a vehicle where 30 years or more have lapsed since 1 January of the year in which the vehicle was manufactured
  
• has not been modified from its original design to any significant extent.

A prescribed left-hand drive vehicle

• is a vehicle that has its steering wheel on the left of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle
  
• was manufactured before 1 January 1974
  
• has not been modified from its original design to any significant extent.
  
  

  Format	Title	Size
  	Code of Practice for Historic Vehicles and Prescribed Left Hand Drive Vehicles	32kb
  	Conditional registration codes	89kb
  	Conditional Registration of Historic Vehicles and Prescribed Left hand Drive Vehicles This publication is also available from any Customer Service Centre.	255kb

Registration info can also be found on the Historic Vehicles Registration Fees page.