Glossary: Cause of Registration

A vehicle can be registered as follows:

• New — new vehicle never registered before
• Used — used vehicle previously registered in another country
• Re-registered — vehicle previously registered in New Zealand.
• Scratch Built — a motor vehicle which is either:
  • Assembled from previously unrelated components and construction materials which have not been predominantly sourced donors of a single make or model and which, in its completed form, never previously existed as a mass-produced vehicle, although the external appearance may resemble or replicate an existing vehicle; or
  • a modified production vehicle which contains less than the following componentry from a mass-produced vehicle of a single make and model:
    • 40% of the chassis rails and 50% of the crossmembers, or alternatively 40% of a spaceframe, or 40% of the floorpan of a unitary constructed body, which ever is appropriate: or
    • for light vehicles, 40% of the bodywork (based on surface area of body panels but does not include the floorpan, internal bracing, sub panels, bulkheads or firewall)

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