List of Recommendations

Supplier's Name and Address and Contact Information and Registered Motor Vehicle Trader and Registration Number

1. No changes proposed. Continue to require the supplier's (or in the case of auctions, auctioneer's) name, address and any other contact information, and the registration number of the registered motor vehicle trader, if applicable, on the SIN.

Cash Price

2. Amend cash price to read "Total cash price including GST and any additional costs to allow road use, e.g. registration and licensing". Continue to require that sales by auction or competitive tender state either "for sale by auction" or "for sale by competitive tender" in place of the cash price.

Disclosure of Security Interests

3. Amend security interest to require the supplier to tick either Yes or No to indicate whether or not there is a security interest in the vehicle.

Make and Model, Engine Capacity, and Operating Fuel Type

4. No change proposed. Continue to require the supplier to enter on the SIN the vehicle make and model, engine capacity, operating fuel type and the vehicle identification number or chassis number.

Date Attributes - Vehicle Year, Year of Manufacture and Year of First Registration

5. Amend SIN by deleting reference to "Vehicle year".

6. Amend SIN to require supplier to state year of first registration of vehicle as recorded on the Motor Vehicle Register.

Actual Distance the Vehicle Has Travelled

7. No change proposed. Continue to require the SIN to record the actual distance the vehicle has travelled or odometer wording disclaimer.

Vehicle Registration and Vehicle Licence

8. Amend SIN to provide separate boxes for "Vehicle registration" and "Vehicle licence".

9. In the "Vehicle registration" include tick box "No" or "Yes" options and alongside the tick box provide for either the "Registration plate details" to be recorded; or the words "not yet registered" to be written. Also provide for a tick box for "Re-registered vehicle" "Yes" or "No".

10. In the "Vehicle licence expiry" box include tick box "No" or "Yes" options and alongside the "Yes" tick box provide for the "Vehicle licence expiry date" to be recorded.

Registration Plate Number

11. Provide for either the "Registration plate details" to be recorded alongside the "Vehicle registration" tick box; or require that if the vehicle is unregistered the words "not yet registered" be written.

Warrant or Certificate of Fitness

12. No change proposed. Continue to require the supplier to tick "Yes" or "No" on the SIN that there is a warrant of fitness and to record the warrant's expiry date.

Road User Charges Apply and Outstanding Road User Charges

13. Continue to require "Yes" or "No" tick boxes to indicate if road user charges apply and if any outstanding road user charges. Place this information on the SIN either in close proximity to the cash price or to the entry disclosing operating fuel type.

Re-Registered Vehicle

14. No change required. Continue to require "Yes" or "No" tick boxes to indicate whether re-registered vehicle.

Information about Imported Used Vehicles, Year First Registered Overseas and Country Where Last Registered

15. Amend to require country where last registered prior to import.

16. Continue to require supplier to indicate "Year first registered overseas" and "Yes" or "No" tick boxes to indicate whether imported as damaged vehicle.

Japanese Specification Radios

17. Amend the SIN to provide for a "Yes" or "No" tick box that refers to the vehicle having a radio receiver capable of receiving from 88 to 108 MHz without a band expander.

Supplier Sale and Vehicle Details

18. No change to requiring a prescribed format for the SIN.

19. Amend SIN layout to provide for better grouping of like information.

Consumer Advice

20. Amend the reverse of the SIN to give clearer meaning to the Consumer Information provided. For example "Your Rights" tightened to "Your Rights as a Consumer" and the security interest information be amended to better reflect the disclosure requirements.

21. Correct the contact details for the Personal Property Securities Register.

Signing and Dating the SIN

22. Amend the SIN to require both the consumer and trader to sign the SIN. For online sales motor vehicle traders could possibly use a "tick the box" confirmation system to ensure the signing obligations are met and use a mail service or other suitable means to provide the consumer with a copy of the SIN.

Notice Title

23. The Supplier Information Notice be renamed Consumer Information Notice.

24. Amend the SIN so that references to "you" are amended to reflect the duty or instruction as appropriate for the motor vehicle trader or consumer.