Almost every argument about the garage address starts from the same misreading. Someone repeats that a club permit car has to be kept within 100 metres of the registered address, or cannot be parked on the street, and it spreads because it sounds like the sort of rule the scheme would have. It is not a rule at all. The 100 metres is about your logbook.
What is the garage address, and what is the 100 metres?
The garage address is the address VicRoads records the vehicle as being kept at, and it has to be in Victoria — the VicRoads club permit application form states beside that field that VicRoads will only register vehicles garaged in Victoria. Beyond that, the address does the work in exactly one rule about driving: you complete a logbook entry every time you drive the vehicle more than 100 metres from it. The distance is a threshold for when a trip has to be recorded, not a limit on where the vehicle may go or where it may sit.
Read that way, the number makes sense. Shuffling the car up the driveway or across to the neighbour's to borrow a jack is not a permit day. Driving to the shops is. The 100 metres draws that line so that trivial movement does not consume an allowance of 45 or 90 days.
Does the vehicle have to be kept in an actual garage?
The rules use the phrase "garage address" as a description of where the vehicle is kept. They do not specify a building, a lock-up or a carport, and they impose no construction standard on it. What they do require is that the address VicRoads holds is correct, because you must tell VicRoads when the vehicle's details change, and the example the rules give is garage address alongside vehicle colour.
Being kept under cover is good for the car and often relevant to an insurer. It is not, on the published rules, a condition of the permit.
Can a club permit car be parked on the street?
The club permit pages do not deal with street parking, which means nothing in them prohibits it. Ordinary parking rules apply as they do to any vehicle, and the vehicle still has to be presented properly: club permit plates fitted, and the windscreen label attached so it is clear the permit is current. Both are issued by VicRoads when the permit is granted, and both exist so the vehicle's status can be read from outside.
Where street parking does raise a real question is with your insurer rather than with VicRoads. A policy priced on a vehicle kept in a locked garage is not the same policy as one kept at the kerb. That is a disclosure issue on the insurance side, and we cover the broader question in club permit insurance.
Can I record two garage addresses?
The rules contemplate a garage address, singular, and describe no arrangement for two. If the vehicle genuinely moves between properties — a house in town and a shed in the country, a car stored at a relative's — the honest answer is that the published pages do not tell you how to record that, and we are not going to invent an answer.
Ask VicRoads which address to record before you lodge. It matters more than it sounds, because the address is the reference point for every logbook entry you will make. If your entries are measured from an address the vehicle does not actually live at, the logbook stops describing reality, and the logbook is the document an audit inspection turns on.
What has to happen when I move?
Tell VicRoads that the vehicle's details have changed, and do it within 14 days. That deadline is in the regulations, not just on the web pages: regulation 185(1)(f) of the Road Safety (Vehicles) Regulations 2021 requires notice within 14 days of a change to your name or address, a change to the vehicle particulars or the vehicle being modified, and a change to the garage address. Do it at the move rather than at the next renewal.
Three other things travel with the move. Tell your insurer, so the address on the policy matches the address on the permit. Recalibrate the logbook, because your 100-metre threshold now runs from somewhere else — a trip that used to need an entry might not, and vice versa. And if the move takes you out of Victoria altogether, that is a bigger conversation: the permit is a Victorian instrument and does not follow the car. We cover it in moving to Victoria with a car on club rego.
Why does VicRoads care about the address at all?
Because it is the anchor for everything else. The permit is issued on the basis of a described vehicle kept at a described place. VicRoads can require an audit inspection at any time, and an inspection presupposes knowing where the vehicle is. If the permit carries operating conditions, you have to follow them and carry the certificate of approved operations in the vehicle. The address ties the paperwork to a physical car in a physical location.
It is also the quiet reason the logbook rule is written the way it is. An allowance of 45 or 90 days only means anything if there is a fixed point to measure trips from. Change the point without telling anyone and the record drifts out of alignment with what the vehicle is actually doing.
The short version
The 100 metres is a logbook trigger, not a leash. There is no published requirement for a garage as a building, and none prohibiting street parking. There is one address per vehicle, and VicRoads has to be told when it changes. Anything past that — two properties, an unusual arrangement, a move across a border — is a question for VicRoads, and asking costs nothing.
For how the logbook itself works once the address is settled, our club permit rules and logbook guide works through each entry rule with examples.
Logbook and change-of-detail rules from the Transport Victoria club permit rules page; plates, labels and audit powers from the VicRoads guide to getting a club permit, both read on 4 September 2026; the garaged-in-Victoria requirement and the 14-day notice period from the VicRoads club permit application form and regulation 185(1)(f) of the Road Safety (Vehicles) Regulations 2021, read 5 September 2026. VicRoads does not publish rules on street parking or two garage addresses; confirm those directly.
Questions
What is the 100 metre rule?
A logbook trigger. The rule is that you complete a logbook entry every time you drive the vehicle more than 100 metres from its garage address. It says nothing about where the vehicle must be kept or how far it may be parked from your house.
Does the car have to be in a garage?
No. The rules use "garage address" as the address the vehicle is kept at and impose no construction standard on it. Two things they do require: the address must be in Victoria, which the VicRoads club permit application form states beside the field, and VicRoads must be told within 14 days when it changes.
Can I park a club permit car on the street?
The club permit pages do not address street parking, so nothing there prohibits it. Ordinary parking rules still apply, and the vehicle still needs its club permit plates fitted and the windscreen label displayed so it is clear the permit is current.
Can I have two garage addresses?
The rules contemplate one address per vehicle and do not describe a two-address arrangement. If the vehicle genuinely lives between two properties, ask VicRoads which address to record before you apply, rather than picking one and hoping it never matters.
What do I do when I move house?
Tell VicRoads. The rules require you to notify a change to the vehicle’s details, and garage address is the example they give. Tell your insurer at the same time, since a mismatch between the address VicRoads holds and the one on your policy is a problem you only discover at claim time.
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