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Roy Whyss, owner of Queensland manufacturer
Sunland Caravans said that he viewed the changes
as a positive starting point “in helping to get rid
of some of the confusion that manufacturers face
due to the ambiguity of government regulations”.
“I also believe that it will give some teeth to the
authorities, which have previously been unable to
take action against those few manufacturers who
weren’t compliant,” he told GoRV.
Shaun Noble, co-director of Victorian
manufacturer Goldstream RV, agreed that the
overhaul to the regulatory framework was
positive for the public and for the industry.
“THE RVSA WILL
PUT THE SWORD
TO A NUMBER
OF SMALLER RV
IMPORTERS.”
“We as manufacturers have been waiting a long
time for this to come,” Mr Noble said. “As to the
effect it will have in practice, we will have to wait
and see.”
He said Goldstream had been briefed on the new
regime several times and that compliance with
the RVSA – inputing data online – didn’t seem
“too complicated”.
Dean Porter of Ezy-Trail, which imports its range
of camper trailers and hybrid vans, predicted that
the RVSA would put the sword to a number of
smaller RV importers, especially since importers
were not being given more time to comply with
the system in the same way local manufacturers
were.
“We are well on the way to being compliant with
the RVSA and when it kicks in in December, we’ll
have everything in place,” he said. “But we are
a large company with the resources to do it;
the smaller companies out there are going to
struggle.”
Dean Porter of Ezy-Trail, the manufacturer/importer of this Parkes 15 hybrid, predicts smaller
imports will struggle to be comply with the RVSA requirements before it kicks in.
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