Registration and number plates
Christmas closures
- MVR Jabiru will be closed from Friday 6 December 2024 to Wednesday 5 February 2025, reopening on Thursday 6 February 2025.
- MVR Yulara will be closed from Monday 16 December 2024 to Wednesday 1 January 2025, reopening on Thursday 2 January 2025.
- All other MVR offices including the contact centre and vehicle inspection facilities will be closed from Wednesday 25 December 2024 to Wednesday 1 January 2025, reopening on Thursday 2 January 2025.
Check locations and opening hours or find other ways to access MVR services.
Information on vehicle registration, buying and selling, vehicle compliance and numbers plates in the Northern Territory.
- Register or transfer your vehicle
How to register your new car, motorcycle, trailer or other vehicle in the NT including information about roadworthy inspections. - Register vehicle in joint names
How to register a vehicle in a joint names at the MVR. - Apply for a temporary licence to drive or tow an unregistered vehicle
You can apply for a temporary licence to drive or tow an unregistered vehicle if you and your vehicle can meet all of the requirements. - Selling or disposing a vehicle as a licensed vehicle dealer
How to submit a notice of disposal form with the MVR to properly dispose of motor vehicles or register a vehicle for an interstate or overseas resident. - Register an imported vehicle
What you need to register an imported vehicle in the Northern Territory (NT). - Golf buggy exemption
When you should register your golf buggy in the NT, including insurance and driver licence requirements for driving your golf buggy. - Motor club vehicles
The NT Club Registration Scheme gives you a reduced rate of registration and compulsory third party insurance. - Primary producer discount and pastoral vehicle permits
Guide to the registration discount and stamp duty exemption for primary producers who want to drive on public roads, including pastoral vehicle permits. - Apply for conditional registration for quad bikes and ATVs
How to apply for conditional registration for a quad bike or all-terrain vehicles (ATV) for work related purposes. - Scooters
Information about motorised scooters and what licence you need to have to ride one in the Northern Territory. - Non-standard vehicle types
This page has information on segways, power assisted bicycles or bikes, and glider trailers. - Special purpose plant and equipment vehicles
How to apply for conditional registration for a special purpose plant and equipment vehicles for work related purposes. - Apply for rally car registration
Find out how to register your rally car. - Get registration and stamp duty concessions for electric vehicles
How to apply for concessions on registration and stamp duty for your electric vehicle.
- Check your vehicle registration
How to check your vehicle registration status using Rego Check Online, by phone or email. - Renew your vehicle registration
How to renew your car, motorcycle, trailer or other vehicle registration online, using the NT rego app, by mail, phone or in person. - Apply for your vehicle registration history
How to apply to the MVR for a search of your registration history. - Buying and selling a used vehicle: registration
Checks you should carry out before you buy a second-hand vehicle, when you should transfer the ownership and lodging a notice of disposal form if you are selling a vehicle. - Cancel or refund your vehicle registration
Information on getting a refunding or cancelling your vehicle registration in the Northern Territory. - NT Rego app
How to get the NT Rego app to check the registration of any vehicle in the NT, change your contact details and find MVR offices. - MVR for Business
If you are a business operator or dealer, you can check, renew or transfer vehicle registrations online. If you are an authorised inspector, you can also submit roadworthy inspections online.
- Drive an interstate or overseas-registered vehicle
Requirements for driving interstate and overseas vehicles in the Northern Territory including compulsory third party insurance.
- Get a vehicle inspection
You can get a vehicle inspection with an authorised inspector or at a government inspection facility. - Get a vehicle compliance check
When to get a compliance check, how to get one and what to do if your vehicle fails the inspection. - Find a vehicle inspection facility
For compliance checks and roadworthy inspections, go to your nearest vehicle inspection facility. - Find an authorised vehicle inspector
Find an authorised vehicle inspector to carry out your roadworthy inspection to register your vehicle or renew your registration. - Find a mobile authorised vehicle inspector
When you can use a mobile authorised inspector (AI), excluded mobile AI zones and how to book with a mobile AI to carry out your roadworthy inspection to register your vehicle or renew your registration. - Check if your vehicle needs an inspection
Find out when your type of vehicle needs a roadworthy inspection for registration, including information on older cars. - If your vehicle fails the inspection
You may apply for a temporary licence to drive an unregistered vehicle if the vehicle is safe to drive. - Become an authorised inspector
Find out how to become an authorised inspector (AI) or a mobile AI for motor vehicles.
- Apply for personalised number plates
Personalised, custom or special number plates are available in different sizes and colours. You will also have to pay a fee to apply for these plates. - Transfer the right to display number plates
You can apply to transfer the right to display number plates to another person. - Replace your damaged, lost or stolen number plates
You can apply to have your plates replaced or you can get a new set of general issue plates if they are damaged, defaced, lost or stolen. - Apply for a trader's plate
How to get trader's plates for your business in the Northern Territory. - Buy a souvenir number plate
Souvenir plates are number plates that are no longer assigned to a registered vehicle or they have been handed in by the owner. - Fitting your number plates to your vehicle
How to put number plates on your vehicle and other requirements. - Number plate labels for electric, hybrid and hydrogen vehicles
Read about the mandated labels attached to electric, hybrid and hydrogen vehicles' number plates. - Cyclone Tracy limited edition number plates
How to buy limited edition Cyclone Tracy number plates for your NT registered car.
- Vehicle accessories
Information on requirements for fitting vehicle accessories, including antennas, bonnet scoops, bull bars, roof racks and bicycle racks. - Vehicle modifications
Information on the approval processes for registration of modified or individually constructed vehicles in the Northern Territory. - Light vehicle standards for registration
Registration standards for your vehicle, including lights and window tinting. - Driver training vehicle: apply to fit dual control
How to apply to the MVR to fit dual control to a vehicle if you are conducting driver training. - Light bus seat modifications
Rules you must follow to modify the number of seats in a light bus so a person with a C class driver licence can drive the vehicle. - Pastoral vehicles: registration standards
Information on special vehicle standards for certain types of pastoral vehicles to meet registration requirements in the NT. - Towing and A-frames
Northern Territory regulations and guidelines for towing, including using A-frames.
- Abandoned and stolen vehicles
Guide to vehicles abandoned on public roads, including how to report an abandoned vehicle. - NT written off vehicle register
How to notify the MVR that your vehicle has been written-off. - Towed and impounded vehicles
How to find your vehicle if towed and impounded, and how to claim it.
- Registration fees
Vehicle registration fees in the NT.