Key info
- If you buy a boat that is already registered, you must transfer the registration to your name within 14 days.
- You can check online to see if the boat you are buying is currently registered.
- You must visit a service centre to transfer a boat registration.
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About transferring a boat registration
If you have bought a boat that is registered in Tasmania, you must transfer the boat registration into your name within 14 days. You may be fined if you do not.
If you have bought a boat that is not currently registered, you can apply to register the boat and transfer it into your name as part of the registration process.
How to transfer
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What you need to transfer
When you visit the service centre you need:
- a completed transfer application (PDF, 239KB), signed by the last primary registered operator (seller) and declared 'SAFE'.
You can also provide:
- a completed transfer application with a receipt signed by the last primary registered operator (seller), or
- to have the reverse side of the current certificate of registration signed by the last primary registered operator (seller).
You must include a seller declaration (PDF, 163KB) and buyer declaration (PDF, 164KB) signed and declared 'SAFE'.
The seller can also complete the declaration online together with a notice of disposal.
You also need to:
- provide proof of identity
- pay the fee.
Can I transfer?
You can transfer a boat registration into your name if you are over 16 years old.
Proving your identity
There are 2 ways to prove your identity:
1. your Tasmanian driver licence
You can show your driver licence, even if it expired up to 2 years ago
2. provide identity documents
If you don't have a Tasmanian driver licence, you must show at least:
- One Category A document and two Category B documents, or
- Two Category A documents and one Category B document.
- Australian birth certificate (not an extract or commemorative certificate)
- Australian photo driver licence (can be expired up to 2 years)
- Australian passport (can be expired up to 2 years)
- Overseas passport/visa (can be expired up to 2 years)
- Australian firearms licence
- Tasmanian Government personal information card (displaying full name)
- Australian citizenship papers
- Travel documents or ImmiCard (issued by Department of Immigration and Border Protection or Australian Government)
- Certificate of Evidence of Resident Status (issued by Department of Immigration and Border Protection)
- Medicare card
- Bank or credit card with signature
- Student identity card with photo (issued by an Australian educational institution)
- Concession card (Veteran's Affairs/Centrelink/other current entitlement issued by the Australian Government)
- Births, Deaths and Marriages change of name/marriage certificate/deed poll (not a church or celebrant issued document)
- High risk work licence (issued by WorkSafe Tasmania)
- Working with vulnerable people or children card (issued by the Australian Government).
At least one document must confirm your current Tasmanian residential address
Additional evidentiary documentation may be required from the Evidence of Residential Address section below.
Documents must be less than 6 months old.
- Financial institution statement
- Utility account (power, water, telephone)
- Council rate notice
- Lease or rent agreement
- Land tax valuation notice
- Australian Taxation Office assessment (current or last financial year)
- Certificate of title.
If you are a provisional applicant, and you are unable to provide any of the above documentation to confirm a current Tasmanian residential address, you may provide one of the following:
- Copy of driver licence of either parent (as sighted on birth certificate to confirm the relationship)
- Letter from current school confirming enrolment and address
- Concession card - provisional applicant as a listed dependent
- Adoption paper issued by court
- Divorce paper issued by court, indicating the name being reverted to
- Change of name registration issued by Births, Deaths and Marriages or deed poll
- Guardianship order
- Marriage certificate issued by Births, Deaths and Marriages (not a church or celebrant issued document).
How much it costs
To find out how much you need to pay, please visit Marine and Safety Tasmania.
Fees and charges last updated 1 July, 2023.
Payment options
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More Information
- If the boat registration has recently expired or is about to expire, you can pay the next registration renewal period with the transfer fee.
- If your boat registration has expired for more than a year you can apply to register again and keep the existing registration number. For more information please ask at a service centre.
- To transfer a boat registration that is currently registered to a deceased owner, you must also provide a:
- transfer application (PDF, 239KB) completed and signed and declared 'SAFE' by an executor of the estate as the seller. If the declaration is not on the current certificate of registration, the executor is to complete the seller declaration (PDF, 163KB)
- copy of the death certificate issued by Births Deaths and Marriages
- copy of the will confirming the executor
- the beneficiary of estate where applicable. Where a person is listed as a beneficiary of an estate, the transfer fee does not apply.
- If you need to change your personal or boat details, complete an application for change of details form (PDF, 202KB) and lodge it at a service centre.
Please visit Marine and Safety Tasmania for more information on transferring a boat registration.