Club permits
A club permit lets you drive a car for a certain number of days each year. You must follow certain rules to keep a club permit.
A club permit lets you drive your car up to 45 or 90 days per year, anywhere in Australia.
Club permits are issued by VicRoads.
Forms and documents related to club permits include:
- club permit endorsement (PDF)
- club permit agreement (PDF)
- club permit application (PDF)
- club permit scheme approved club office bearers and scrutineers (PDF)
- vehicle eligibility and standards declaration for club permit scheme vehicle (PDF).
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Club permit rules
If you don’t follow club permit rules, you may be fined.
To keep your club permit, you must:
- be a member of an approved club or association. If you switch clubs, you can’t have a gap longer than 14 days between your memberships.
- keep a log book of your trips
- make sure anyone driving the vehicle follows their licence conditions
- tell VicRoads if:
- your vehicle’s details change (for example, vehicle colour, or garage address)
- your personal details change (address, name)
- you join a new club
- take the vehicle for an audit inspection if VicRoads asks you to
- if your vehicle has operating conditions:
- follow the conditions
- carry the certificate of approved operations in the vehicle.
Using a log book
Follow these rules to use your log book correctly.
- Attach a club permit to the club log book.
- Complete a log book entry every time you drive the vehicle more than 100 metres from its garage address. If you drive a vehicle multiple times in a day, only record the first use by the first driver.
- If your trip spans before and after midnight, put an entry in your log book for each day.
- Don’t write log book entries for future journeys.
- Only use as many entries as your permit allows. Once you use the entries up, you can’t drive more than 100 metres from its garage address until you get another permit. For example, a 45-day club permit can only use the first 45 entries. You can get a second 45-day club permit and attach it to the log book.
View more on driver handbooks and log books.
Other rules
| Topic | Club permit requirements |
|---|---|
| Learner and probationary drivers | Learner and probationary driver rules apply to all vehicles, including those with a club permit. Probationary drivers can’t drive a vehicle if someone other than the manufacturer has modified it to increase the vehicle’s performance. This includes cars with a club permit. If you’re riding a motorcycle with a club permit, follow relevant motorcycle licence restrictions. |
| Left-hand-drive vehicles | You can only drive left-hand-drive vehicles at night if required lights/lamps (including dipping headlamps) are suitable for right-hand driving. |
| Towing | You can tow a trailer or caravan using a vehicle with a club permit. The vehicle you are towing must be registered, and the driver must follow their licence conditions. |
Standards for club permit vehicles
Vehicles on a club permit must meet Schedule 2 of the road safety (vehicles) regulations 2021. Modified vehicles must also meet:
- VicRoads' guide to modifications for motor vehicles (vehicle standards information No. 8)
- VicRoads' guide to modifications to vehicles operated under Victoria's club permit scheme (vehicle standards information No. 33).
Motorcycles on a club permit must meet VicRoads' summary of registration requirements for motorcycles and mopeds (vehicle standards information No. 4).
If your modified vehicle doesn’t comply with these standards, VicRoads may ask you to:
- give the club a roadworthy certificate or vehicle assessment signatory scheme (VASS) approval certificate showing the vehicle meets standards for club permit vehicles
- take the vehicle to a nominated testing site, or for inspection by an authorised officer/vehicle inspector.
If you don’t follow these rules, VicRoads may suspend or cancel your club permit.
Report a breach of club permit rules
Tell VicRoads if someone breaches club permit rules by:
- using their club permit vehicle for commercial purposes
- modifying their club permit vehicle beyond vehicle standards.
VicRoads will keep your report confidential unless you consent to your name being released, or they are required to release it by law.
Report a breach using one of these by emailing [email protected], or mailing:
VicRoads
Registration and Licensing Services
GPO Box 1644
Melbourne VIC 3001