The End For Registration Stickers In Nsw!

[fletty]

Emailed through work, Thought everyone in NSW might want a read..

Earlier today, the President of NSW Business Chamber, Terry Wetherall, joined the Premier of NSW, Barry O'Farrell, and Roads Minister, Duncan Gay, to announce the elimination of registration stickers for vehicles under 4.5 tonnes from 1 January 2013.

Last June, NSW Business Chamber suggested to the NSW Government that registration stickers for vehicles had become unnecessary red tape for the owners of NSW's 5.7 million vehicles, of which about one million are registered for business use.

The NSW Government has listened to us and the days of peeling stickers off your vehicle windows will now become a thing of the past.

The Government believes this will save vehicle owners about $26 million a year to benefit NSW. We have modelled a $5 million direct saving for business operators or the equivalent of 160,000 hours of unnecessary red tape.

The announcement today is a small but important symbol of what Governments should be doing to help NSW businesses thrive - getting rid of out of date regulations that no longer serve a meaningful purpose but only add to the time and financial burden of running your business.

We hope that this will build on the other red tape cutting measures that the NSW Government has agreed to including a 'one in, two off' approach to new regulations and a $750 million red tape cutting target - both proposals from NSW Business Chamber.

You can view the NSW Government's media release on the announcement on our website.

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Edited 24/05/12 06:18 AM by fletty

[senna_T]

Whats the bet your rego doesn't go down in cost...

[TomT]

It will probably go down by the production cost of one rego sticker, whatever percentage of 1cent that is.

[BigAl's04]

They didn't reduce the cost of rego in SA when they eliminated the stickers.

[lrmcdowell]

it saves saves the government something like a million dollars a year but they say that there is a 30% more likely chance of unroadworthy cars being on the road and that people werent renewing because they didnt get notified. they even said that whatever state (I think WA) is going to reintroduce them because they were having trouble with the system.....just what I heard on the news anyways

[hypnodoc]

Yeah they use the savings to put a camera on a lightpole every couple of Kays so they can legally photograph every car going past then bust you if you forgot to pay your rego because you didn't have a sticker to remind you. Its all about survelliance not saving money. Next they will be saying it will save lives.

"All of the governments lie to all of the people all of the time".