26 march 2003,

According to the present rules either Carnett or the Temporary Import is possible.I checked this at the RAC and customs airport as well as customs port at Freemantle and Perth.

For both (also a Carnett) you need to go through a Road Safety test. And you need to get 3rd party insurance. Beware here, some charge 65 ozdollars for an import test which is not required just the bare basics road worthy test is okay which costs 33 oz dollars, safes you 32 oz dollars.

Some also require you to register but as your bike is registerd in the country you don't need that also. So I ended up paying 78 oz dollars for 3rd party insurance for 6 months.I still have my own plates and do not need to pay another 150 for oz plates.

The road worthy test is realy no problem as it is no import test but only the basic road worthy test, they watch on:

- Working lights
- no oil leaks (very important)
- wing mirrors
- sometimes they take it for a ride to test the brakes (not on mine).

Thats basicly it, my Indian Enfield went through without any problem (but he was a very nice guy, maybe that helped...).

If they realy want to do difficult there is a rule that the bike must be registerd in the same country as your passport. I am Dutch and the bike is Indian, they luckely did not see that...

Hope this helps anybody

Ronald Colijn



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