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Steven Wardill •From: The Courier-Mail •September 15, 2013

It's that 10 minute annual chore that has earned the ire of most Queensland motorists.
But the Newman Government is tearing up more than 80 years of tradition that requires drivers to apply new stickers to their windscreen every 12 months.

Transport Minister Scott Emerson will today unveil plans to begin phasing out registration stickers on the family car and all other light vehicles.

The decision will be applauded by the owners of the 4.4 million vehicles registered in Queensland that weigh less than 4.5 tonnes.

From next month, the final annual cycle of new stickers will begin being applied across Queensland before they are no longer issued from October 2014.

"Using a kitchen knife to pry off an old label and trying to stick on the new label without bubbles will be a thing of the past,'' Mr Emerson told The Sunday Mail.

"Abolishing labels will also benefit delivery companies and car rental companies with large vehicle fleets."

And while the end of registration stickers will save time - and the odd temper tantrum when the application goes awry - the saving for taxpayers will be significant.

"This will bring Queensland into line with most other Australian states which have already gone stickerless," Mr Emerson said.

"It will mean a more efficient and effective method of registering vehicles and save up to $3.5 million a year in postage and printing costs."

Registration labels were first introduced in Queensland in 1932.

This was the same year Ford unveiled its first V8 engine and freshly-elected Queensland Premier William Forgan Smith ordered a motoring bridge be built across the Brisbane River to alleviate congestion, which was eventually named Story Bridge.

But advances in technology mean police and transport authorities can now readily use number plate recognition to detect unregistered vehicles rather rely on citing the correct colour sticker on a vehicle's front windscreen.

"The key issue in making this decision was to be satisfied that there will not be an increase in the number of unregistered vehicles in Queensland," Mr Emerson said.

"The experience in other states shows that if this is carefully implemented and enforced there won't be any change in vehicle registration numbers."

And while getting hit in the hip pocket for failing to affix the sticker will become obsolete, drivers will still face that equally unpopular chore, paying a fine, for failing to register their vehicle.

That will still cost $800.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/national-news/queensland/queensland-registration-stickers-to-be-phased-out-by-october-2014/story-fnii5v6w-1226719222038#ixzz2ewmrtlOU

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[agentr31]

just ordered new ones too! i do it every few months as its free, it annoys me when they are all faded and ugly looking.

[Surferdude]

So, you guys in States where the labels are already gone, I have a question for you.

When you B Pay, how do you kno wthey have allocate dthe payment to the correct account (yours). Currently you don't get a receipt, just a label in the mail a couple of weeks later.
Sure you can see the money has left your account, but without confirmation, you could be driving an unregistered vehicle.

[Phil №❶]

Now, who's old enough to remember the water transfer rego stickers. Now they really were a pain to put on and remove. 

[Phil №❶]

So, you guys in States where the labels are already gone, I have a question for you.

When you B Pay, how do you kno wthey have allocate dthe payment to the correct account (yours). Currently you don't get a receipt, just a label in the mail a couple of weeks later.
Sure you can see the money has left your account, but without confirmation, you could be driving an unregistered vehicle.

Your supposed to use up YOUR printer ink . tomer and print the receipt form and the place it in your car. Not wasting my toner on their poxy system.

[Surferdude]

So, you guys in States where the labels are already gone, I have a question for you.

When you B Pay, how do you kno wthey have allocate dthe payment to the correct account (yours). Currently you don't get a receipt, just a label in the mail a couple of weeks later.
Sure you can see the money has left your account, but without confirmation, you could be driving an unregistered vehicle.

Your supposed to use up YOUR printer ink . tomer and print the receipt form and the place it in your car. Not wasting my toner on their poxy system.

But, we don't GET a receipt in Queensland ATM.

[agentr31]

i bet you will get a confirmation email i reckon or some other electronic means of recipt.

Bpay, you get the recipt number at the end of the phone transaction (i use phone for all of my banking, it is more secure IMHO sates you have had a successful transaction.

[Aussie Keith]

We get a certificate of registration which shows your up to date. I guess we will still get that but no sticker. In Canada and the US as well no doubt the rego sticker goes on the rear numberplate. You pay for it at a vending machine at the local shopping center and any outstanding fines need to be paid before you are issued the sticker from the vending machine. What a fine idea.

[FatBoy]

In Tassie, we get emailed a receipt when we pay.  We don't have to print it out and put it in the car.

It is up to the individual owner to ensure that their car is registered before they drive it.  Regardless, Tassie still has the highest rate of unregistered and unlicenced drivers in the nation (from the police at work).

[Surferdude]

We get a certificate of registration which shows your up to date. I guess we will still get that but no sticker. In Canada and the US as well no doubt the rego sticker goes on the rear numberplate. You pay for it at a vending machine at the local shopping center and any outstanding fines need to be paid before you are issued the sticker from the vending machine. What a fine idea.

Yeah Keith, I've been with my son in Mississauga when he paid like that at a shopping mall.
Great system.

But they still can't add the sales/provincial tax onto the price of an item on display. 

[Phil №❶]

In Tassie, we get emailed a receipt when we pay.  We don't have to print it out and put it in the car.

It is up to the individual owner to ensure that their car is registered before they drive it.  Regardless, Tassie still has the highest rate of unregistered and unlicenced drivers in the nation (from the police at work).

And when the first whites arrived, what was van Dieman's Land, what more can you expect. It's in the blood. 

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