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Sydney Harbour Bridge number plates
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  • A resident of NSW.
  • Aged 18 years and over.

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 Terms and Conditions Contents

Special Number Plates Auction - Additional Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions apply to the sale by auction of special number plates

(A) OVERVIEW

The special number plates:

  1. Cannot be remade in any other style.
  2. Will incur no annual fee.
  3. Can be placed on any vehicle of your choice registered within New South Wales, with the exception of motorcycles, trailers and vehicles with a gross vehicle mass of more than 4.5 tonnes.
  4. Can be sold and transferred as outlined in (B) the Terms and Conditions for Issue of Special Number Plates.
  5. Always remain the property of the RTA with you receiving a “right to display”.


(B) TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ISSUE OF SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES

1. Privacy

(a) Your personal information is being collected, and will be held by the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) of Centennial Plaza, 260 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills NSW to process your application for Special Number Plates in accordance with the NSW road transport legislation, including the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 and the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 1998.

You have rights to access and correct the information under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW) (PPIP Act). Failure to provide the information, or any part of it, may result in your application not proceeding.

The information supplied may be disclosed by the RTA to third parties including interstate driver licensing and vehicle registration agencies; law enforcement agencies; providers of compulsory third party (bodily injury) insurance; proposed acquirers of vehicles and solicitors engaged in relation to motor vehicle accidents and financial institutions for the purpose of this transaction and to verify the information, for the purposes of law enforcement, public revenue protection, public safety, NSW compulsory third party insurance, enquiries relating to motor vehicles, abandoned vehicles or purposes which would be relevant to any acquisition of vehicles, throughout Australia or as otherwise permitted under the PPIP Act.
(b) By submitting your personal information, you warrant that it is true and complete. If you are applying for Special Number Plates for someone else (the recipient), you also warrant that the recipient has authorised the RTA’s collection of the recipient’s personal information from you, or you have no reason to believe the individual would object to his/her information being supplied and that the information about the recipient is accurate, up to date and complete.

2. Rights to display only

(a) Special Number Plates always remain the property of the RTA.
(b) Once you have paid any applicable fees for the Special Number Plates, you are granted a “right to display” the Special Number Plates issued to you. This means that you may either:
  1. display the Special Number Plates only on a vehicle registered in your name in NSW for which the plates are issued; or
  2. place the Special Number Plates in storage at an RTA motor registry.
(c) The RTA may use any Special Number Plate combination in promotional material, without notifying the holder of the right to display the Special Number Plates.
(d) The right to display Special Number Plates continues until 3 months after the expiry date of registration for the vehicle for which the Special Number Plates are issued or, where plates are in storage, 28 days after the expiry of the storage period.
(e) You will lose the right to display Special Number Plates if:
  1. you do not renew the registration of the vehicle for which your Special Number Plates are issued within 3 months of the expiry of the registration of the vehicle; or
  2. ou do not place the Special Number Plates in storage at an RTA motor registry within 28 days of the expiry of the storage period and pay any applicable number plate storage fees; or
  3. you surrender your vehicle registration.
(f) Special Number Plates must be returned to the RTA within 14 days of receiving a written notice from the RTA that the right to display the Special Number Plates has been lost. Failure to return the Special Number Plates within such timeframe may constitute an offence.
(g) Notwithstanding anything in these terms and conditions, the use of an unregistered vehicle on a road may constitute an offence.
(h) Notwithstanding anything in these terms and conditions, the use of an unregistered vehicle on a road may constitute an offence.

3. Sale of Special Number Plates By You
(a) You can sell or otherwise transfer the right to display your Special Number Plates. To sell your Special Number Plates:
  1. you and the new holder of your plates must complete and submit to the RTA the applicable form; and the new holder must pay the applicable fee.
  2. upon the sale or transfer of your Special Number Plates, you will be regarded as having surrendered your number-plate. The RTA may issue you with another set of number-plates with different content from that of the transferred number-plate subject to the payment of the applicable fee for that issue.

4. Placing Special Number Plates into storage

(a) When placing Special Number Plates in storage, you will need to fill in the applicable form and pay the appropriate storage fee. You can have the Special Number Plates moved to another registry on payment of applicable fees.
(b) Your Special Number Plates can be kept in storage indefinitely provided you pay any applicable fees in advance.
(c) You can pay storage fees for up to 5 years in advance. You can remove the plates at any time. You will be entitled to a refund for annual storage fees you have paid in advance. Refunds of storage fees are granted on the number of whole years remaining rather than a strict pro-rata amount.
(d) If your Special Number Plates are still in storage and you do not renew the storage period within 28 days after expiry of the storage period the Special Number Plates may be destroyed or made available for purchase by another customer.

5. Damaged, destroyed or missing Special Number Plates
(a) If one or both of your Special Number Plates are damaged you must, as soon as practicable:
  1. notify the RTA in writing of the damage; and
  2. surrender the Special Number Plate and unless the RTA otherwise approves, any other matching/corresponding plate with the same combination.
    Failure to do so may constitute an offence.
(b)

If one or both your Special Number Plates is lost, stolen or destroyed you must, as soon as practicable:

  1. notify the RTA in writing of the loss, theft or destruction; and
  2. deliver any matching/corresponding Special Number Plate to the RTA.
    Failure to do so may constitute an offence.

6. Availability, remaking and replacement

(a) If your Special Number Plates are damaged, subject to availability, you can apply for the plates to be remade if you pay the applicable fee.
(b) If one Special Number Plate from a set is lost or stolen, the remaining Special Number Plate must be surrendered to the RTA. To apply for your Special Number Plates to be remade, you must complete the applicable form and pay the applicable remake fee.
(c) If one or both of your Special Number Plates are lost, stolen or destroyed, you can apply for the plates to be remade up to 3 months after expiry of the vehicle registration period but not thereafter. Only the current holder of the right to display the Special Number Plates can apply for the lost or stolen Special Number Plates to be remade. If you request your lost or stolen Special Number Plates to be remade with the same content, you must sign a declaration on the applicable form acknowledging you may be stopped and questioned by the police about displaying plates which the description of the stolen plates.
(d) If your plates have a manufacturing fault reported within 3 years after the date of issue, the RTA will replace your Special Number Plates.

7. Return and recall

You must return your Special Number Plates to the RTA: (i) as required by these terms and conditions; or (ii) if the RTA otherwise notifies.

8. General
(a) Except as otherwise expressly stated in these terms and conditions, the RTA is not liable for any loss or damage of any kind however caused (including, but not limited to, by the negligence of the RTA) which is suffered or incurred by you in connection with these terms and conditions, the issue of Special Number Plates, the rejection or failure to receive your bid for the Special Number Plates, or any act or omission of the RTA or the provision of inaccurate, incomplete or incorrect information by you.
(b) To the extent that any legislation implies a condition or warranty that cannot be excluded but can be limited, clause 8(a) does not apply to that liability and the RTA’s liability for any breach of that condition or warranty is limited to the RTA doing any one or more of the following (at its election):
(c)

Nothing in these terms and conditions is intended to exclude, restrict or modify any rights you may have under any legislation which may not be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement.
(d) You represent and warrant that you have full power to enter into and perform your obligations under these terms and conditions.
(e) You may not assign or otherwise transfer your rights under these terms and conditions to any other person except with the prior written approval of the RTA.
(f)

In exercising your rights under these terms and conditions, you must at all times, comply with all applicable laws.
(g) Nothing in these terms and conditions is intended to limit or qualify your rights or obligations under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 or the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 1998. Failure to comply with your obligations under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 or the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 1998 may constitute an offence.
(h) If any section or part thereof of these terms and conditions is found to be void, unenforceable or invalid, then it is severed leaving the remainder in full force and effect, provided that the severance has not altered the basic nature of these terms and conditions.
(i) These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales, Australia.
(j) The RTA may at any time vary these terms and conditions by publishing the varied terms and conditions on www.shbplates.com. You accept that by doing this, the RTA has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation. The RTA is under no other obligation to notify you of any variation to these terms and conditions.

9. Definitions

9.1 Special Number Plates

Special Number Plates are number plates:
  1. that are not routinely issued by the RTA, and/or
  2. that the RTA has determined should be treated as Special Number Plates,
    being the limited edition Sydney Harbour Bridge Special Number Plates the subject of this auction.