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Replacing or changing a number plate
- Requirements for number plates
- When to supersede number plates
- How to supersede number plates
- Replace illegal copies of plates
- How to attach personalised plates
- Items blocking your number plate
- Accompaniment plates
- Customised number plates
Requirements for number plates
If you drive on Queensland roads, you must ensure that each number plate issued to your vehicle is securely attached.
If your vehicle is issued with 2 number plates, 1 plate must each be fastened to the:
- front of the vehicle
- rear of the vehicle.
If you lot are merely issued with ane number plate, for example motorbikes, the plate must be attached to the:
- rear of the vehicle.
It is the registered operator's responsibility to ensure number plates are attached.
Information technology is of import to notation that whatever number plate issued to a vehicle, that includes personalised or customised plates, remains the belongings of the Country of Queensland and must be surrendered to the Department of Transport and Main Roads, if required.
For personalised and customised plates, information technology is the number plate combination that is the property of the person to whom the plate is issued, non the physical number plate.
Observe out more than information about cancelling your vehicle'due south registration.
It is your responsibility to brand sure your number plates are kept in good condition and are conspicuously legible from any position from which they are required to be visible.
Drilling holes in a number plate is only permitted:
- to enable it to be attached to a vehicle
- if the holes do not interfere with the advent of any characters on the plate
- if plates are not contradistinct in any way to damage or deface the plate.
Drilling holes in a plate to attach a reversing camera is not permitted.
If your number plates are fitted with a cover, plate covers must be:
- clear, clean and untinted
- flat on entire plate surface
- non-reflective.
A encompass, which includes a frame, must let for clear space around the plate details and not sit flush to any details, which includes the plate number and the registering state or territory.
Legible number plates are essential to ensure authentic identification of vehicles. This is based on a need to trace:
- stolen vehicles
- vehicles involved in offense or traffic incidents, such equally crimson light and speed camera offences.
You can be fined if your plate details are not articulate due to a drilled pigsty, cover or a frame or for not replacing damaged or illegible number plates.
The characters on a number plate must be visible from 20m away at any point within an arc of 45 degrees from the surface of the plate, above or to either side of the vehicle. Plates must not exist more than 1.3m to a higher place ground level. This is shown in the diagrams below.
Effigy 1: Vehicle number plate visibility—side view
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Figure 2: Vehicle number plate visibility—meridian view
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Figure iii: Motorcycle number plate visibility
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When to replace number plates
Over time, excessive exposure to exhaust fumes, chemicals, stones, the sun, and general wear and tear can damage your plates and brand them hard to read. You should cheque the condition of your plates regularly, especially if you take older plates.
Standard number plates have a ten year warranty against faulty material and workmanship. This warranty period simply applies when a vehicle is being used nether normal weather. For warranty information for standard or personalised plates, contact the section or go to a transport and motoring customer service centre or, if yous live in a rural surface area, a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please telephone call to confirm earlier visiting.
Constabulary and transport inspectors regularly check the condition of number plates. Make sure your plates can be read. If they cannot be read and cleaning does not gear up the problem, you will need to replace them.
If a vehicle's number plates are stolen, the registered operator of a vehicle must advise the Section of Send and Main Roads within 14 days after discovering the plates have been stolen. The theft of the number plates should also be reported to the Queensland Constabulary Service. Similarly, if number plates are lost, damaged or destroyed, the registered operator of a vehicle must suggest the Section of Send and Chief Roads within 14 days.
Different types of wear and tear that tin brand number plates hard to read
How to replace number plates
To replace your plates, whether you are replacing standard, personalised or customised number plates you tin visit a transport and motoring customer service centre or, if you live in a rural area, a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting.
You will need to:
- bring your old plates (but do non remove them from the vehicle until yous arrive at the customer service centre)
- fill in the:
- standard number plate/s replacement application (F3540) or
- personalised plate/southward replacement application (F3543)
- bring testify of your identity:
- if the vehicle is registered in a business or company name, the person representing the company must have personal identification and provide evidence of representation, such equally existence in uniform or showing work identification
- if your vehicle is registered in 2 names, either person tin sign to supervene upon standard plates and provide identification
- if personalised or customised plates are in ii names they must both sign the application and both provide identification.
- pay the fee:
- to supplant standard plates with the aforementioned or a different plate number
- cheque PPQ for the fee cost of a personalised plate.
When you hand your course in, you will need to paw over your old plates every bit well. If you cannot hand over your plates (because they were lost, stolen or destroyed), you volition need to explain on the grade what happened to them.
If you are getting replacement plates that are not customised or personalised, you will get them immediately. You volition go a new number plate combination. You must attach number plates within 24 hours of receiving them. We encourage you to attach the new plates to your vehicle earlier yous drive away.
If you are applying for the same plate number (these are known as customised plates) or personalised plates, your new plates will be ordered and mailed to yous. You need to keep the old plate on the rear of your vehicle until y'all receive your new plates. For a vehicle with two plates, continue the plate that is in the best condition on the rear of your vehicle. You must hand in the one-time plate when the new plates arrive.
Replace illegal copies of plates
If your standard number plates have been copied, we volition supervene upon them gratis of charge. Copied plates are illegal copies of your number plates that employ your number and letter combination to avoid infringements.
If you suspect your number plate combination has been duplicated and used in illegal activeness, contact Queensland Police and obtain a report stating you accept been the victim of a copied plate offence.
How to replace your copied number plate
To go replacement plates, visit your nearest transport and motoring customer service centre and bring with you:
- your written report issued from the Queensland Police force
- your number plates (remove them after you arrive at the customer service centre).
How to attach personalised number plates
Information about attaching personalised number plates to your vehicle is available on the PPQ website.
Items blocking your number plate
If you accept a tow bar on your vehicle that blocks the view of your rear number plate, remove it when yous're not using it. If your vehicle's tray is in the way, motility your number plate to where information technology tin can be seen easily.
A registered trailer is allowed to cake the view of your vehicle's number plates if the trailer'southward plates are visible.
Accessory number plates
Yous are required to display an accessory number plate if you have a vehicle accessory such as a bicycle rack on your vehicle that blocks the view of your number plate. An accessory number plate ensures your number plate complies with visibility requirements.
An accompaniment number plate is not required if a registered trailer blocks the view of your vehicle'due south number plates but the trailer'southward plates are visible.
How to order an accompaniment number plate
You tin order an accessory number plate:
- online from PPQ
or - in person at a send and motoring customer service centre.
To social club in person, you need to:
- complete the:
- standard number plate/s replacement application (F3540)
or - personalised plate/s replacement application (F3543)
- standard number plate/s replacement application (F3540)
- bring evidence of your identity if:
- the vehicle is registered in a business or visitor proper name, the person representing the company must have personal identification and provide bear witness of representation, such as being in uniform or showing work identification
- your vehicle is registered in two names, they must both sign to order an accompaniment plate and both provide identification
- a personalised/customised plate is in 2 names, they must both sign the application and both provide identification
- pay the fee for an accessory plate for your standard or personalised number plate.
Customised number plates
You lot tin can customise number plates for a:
- motor vehicle
- national heavy vehicle number plate
- motorcycle
- special interest vehicle—green on white or blackness on white only
- limousine—50 series number plate
- big trailer
- modest trailer.
You should customise number plates if:
- you want to keep the same number—if the plates demand to be replaced
- a slimline plate is required (customising a currently issued plate)
- you desire to get a plate number that was issued in the by but is no longer in use (retro/previously issued plates).
Customised plate rules
Customised plates can:
- only be attached to a vehicle registered in exactly the same name as the possessor/s of the plate number
- be kept when y'all transfer your vehicle—you lot will demand to supercede them with standard plates before transferring
- be kept when you cancel your vehicle registration
- be fastened to another vehicle registered in the plate possessor/s name/s
- exist upgraded to personalised plates (personalised plate rules apply).
Customised plates will go standard number plates if attached to a vehicle when transferred.
Yous can't sell a customised plate equally buying is not transferable.
Source: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/registration/numberplate/replace-change