Police Wrap - 25 July

That can’t be a complete police wrap …. no Todd Carney crimes mentioned anywhere.

I have heard that this is changing in October and TPI in the ACT will be opened up to other insurers in a scheme similar to what happens in NSW.

Short answer – no.

http://www.treasury.act.gov.au/compulsorytpi/FAQ-A11.shtml

Speaking of CTP: I believe that in Canberra we are no longer limited to just NRMA. Is this true. If so, which is the most competitive insurance company?

The insurance debacle harks back to when CTP was first set up as part of rego in the ACT.

For some strange reason the CTP policy always started and ended in the middle of the month, which caused a problem if the rego period started at the beginning or end of the month.

To get around it, the insurer decided to extend the CTP period to a maximum of 15 days after the rego expired.

So, in this case they must have nabbed 42 vehicles which were still in the 1-15 day period, and 23 that had gone beyond it.

Could some of these cars be NSW registered? Does NSW have compolsory 3rd party as part of the rego, or do they get it seperate?

I’ve usually got the rego paid on time but then the recalcitrant little sticker sometimes stays in my glove box and patently refuses to afix itself by renewal time.

Sometimes for weeks.

Thats what I was saying JB, 19 cars just out of rego and 23 cars out of rego by a lot = 42 unregistered cars & 23 uninsured.

& i’d beleive 19 cars just out of rego, it’s a fairly common thing.

Hands up how many people have never let their rego slip by a few days ever by accident or not?

I saw the ACT rego inspectors do a random inspection of cars in the cars in car park at the War Memorial 1 year and they found about 4 cars out of rego.

This also explains why I have seen groups of apparently abbandond cars on the side of the road recently.

Still not the answer FB, that’d give un-registered cars, not un-insured ones.

Unless ~20 of those caught were out of rego by just a few days which strikes me as unlikely.