[Baz]

Having commenced my build in 2007 and now to the point that it's almost complete, I can definately confirm that what Mando says, applies in other States, BUT DOES NOT APPLY IN NSW. Here, you don't inform the RTA that you are commencing an ICV and they don't give you three years to complete it. You build it, then when a new ADR comes out, you modify the build to comply with that ADR. I know, because it's happened to me on a few occasions now.

It would be great if all the States were consistent. It should work like this right throughout the Country:-

When you are preparing to commence a build, you enter into a signed Memorandum of Understanding with the Licensensing Authority which in my case would be the NSW RTA. That Memorandum of Understanding would be in the form of a Build Document issued by the RTA, outlining all the ADR's and other requirements with which you have to comply in order to have your ICV registered. It would specify a build time, say 4 years, and you could go about your build without worrying what changes to ADR's may effect you in the future. Any new ADR's issued after the memorandum of Understanding was signed would not apply to you. What a simple solution and one which would work efficiently Australia wide.

I would like to hear your comments on this idea.

Baz