C next financial year, 2019, subscriptions for membership can still be paid late in the Jan / Feb months as per past practice. However, for years 2020 onwards, subscriptions to the Club must be paid in advance; this applies to all members, as per the Club’ s constitution. This is especially important for owners of historic vehicles on Club Registration as these members must remain financial members of a motor vehicle club at all times. Therefore, members will be required to pay subscriptions in advance, before the end of 2019 for the 2020 year. An invoice will be sent out in October 2019 for subscription payments in the Nov / Dec period. The Club Treasurer and Club Registration inspectors will be available to collect subs and update or replace log books as required, respectively, for each Saturday morning in November 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, and for December 7 and 14, 2019.

The normal second and fourth Saturday inspection mornings will resume in January through to the end of October in the year 2020.

Facts: If you fail to remain a financial member of a motor vehicle club, and are caught driving by the police, a fine of up to $ 750 may be charged. The same applies if you forget to fill out your log book before making a journey. However, if you have broken a law as well, you may lose your club registration, have to revert back to normal registration and pay the

28 difference over the financial year period, as well as pay a fine.

So be very careful out on the public roads, observing the road rules at all times, as one should; but especially if you tend to be forgetful! If a second driver drives the vehicle, another line must be signed off for the same journey. If the journey spans more than one day, a second entry is required for the second day, and so on. This includes a return to home after midnight from a party, meeting, event, etc. This constitutes a second journey and must therefore, be entered into the log book before commencement.

Myths: The ninety days of log book usage is within the Club’ s financial year. Actually, the journeys are counted from day one of your vehicle’ s registration to the last day for that one year period.

Although commonly thought, if you have failed to remain a financial member of a motoring club or have forgotten to fill in the details of your journey and are involved in an accident, you will not be covered by third party insurance and considered unregistered. This is a myth; you will still be registered and insured. A big fine may be charged or worse, as per above.

Now, a reminder: Replacement of expired log books may be sooner than you think. The red inked date for log book replacement is shown on the front cover, is no longer valid. The important date from now on will be the date of expiry for the third year of club membership. The front cover date will be corrected when the log book is updated

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CLUB REGISTRATION From.. Geoff Goode