Independent registration information. This website is operated by AUCN and is not a government service. Rego information and a paid PPSR or vehicle history report cover different things.
Vehicle licence or driver licence?
A vehicle licence relates to the vehicle's registration. A driver licence relates to the person driving. Select the vehicle rego service when checking a car, trailer or caravan.
- Copy the plate from the vehicle or registration papers.
- Check that you selected the WA vehicle service.
- Read the returned status and expiry together.
What an expiry check cannot decide
Transport WA notes that the vehicle owner remains responsible for determining whether a vehicle should be driven. A rego record is not an assessment of its present mechanical condition.
- Compare the record with the vehicle.
- Resolve an unexplained mismatch with the authority.
- Check any vehicle conditions before relying on a date.
Buying a WA vehicle
Registration is one part of the purchase. Check security interests separately and arrange the correct vehicle-licence transfer rather than assuming a rego lookup changes the record.
Official sources
Use the relevant government service to confirm current requirements and registration information.
- WA Government: check vehicle licence expiry
- Transport WA: buy and transfer a vehicle licence
- Transport WA: renew a vehicle licence
- Transport WA: seller transfer and notification
- WA Government: paying transfer charges
- RevenueWA: vehicle licence duty
- RevenueWA: vehicle duty calculator
- Transport WA: first licence, interstate and expired vehicles
- Transport WA: DoTDirect services
- PPSR: used car and vehicle searches