About applying for special classification or exemption in respect of motor vehicle licence fees
If you have a motor vehicle that is not designed for transporting goods or people on public roads (in the opinion of the MEC concerned), you may have the vehicle specially classified and exempted from licensing fees.
Vehicles that may qualify for special classification include a water boring machine, threshing machine, harvester, harrow, mower, baler, scraper, leveller, spraying machine, crane, plough, a vehicle adapted, rebuilt or changed to be used solely for racing purposes and/or exhibition.
The National Road Traffic Act only allows you to drive such vehicles on public roads for short distances to:
- the premises of the owner for delivery
- cross a public road from the premises of the owner to another over a distance of not more than one kilometre
- proceed to or from a place where repairs are to be or have been effected to such motor vehicle.