[hodson]

Boxhead
I have been going through the situation of purchasing a car interstate (NSW) that was currently registered and bringing it back into Queensland for registration. After a couple of phone calls to the Dept of Transport (Qld) I found that it wasn't as simple as just getting a roadworthy (or safety certificate Qld). The DOT Qld require you to submit a request for reciprocal registration to them, then submit the original engineering papers as well as the current "state of registration" papers. This is then sent to the DOT engineer in Brisbane where he/she decides if the car is OK for registration in Qld. Advice from the local engineer here in Townsville is that the DOT consider each car on its engineering reports & Merits. This all starts to get very hard particularly if you are spending a lot of money on a maybe that it will get the nod for registration. I gave up and am currently looking at a car already registered in Qld (then its only a roadworthy / safety cert)