Nah, nobody checks any MOT or whatever-certificate upon import. If it is a temporary import, your bike has to undergo a technichal check and afterwards the foreign rego is fed into the computer of the local licensing office. You do NOT have to obtain a local Oz rego, although some of the bureaucrats at the licensing office try to talk you into it ;-o
The officer at the Perth technichal check even wanted to weigh and measure my bike. I just told him to study the carnet details and consider that as containing ALL necessary information and nothing more. Fortunately not all people are like that...
In Oz a local bike only has to undergo a kind of MOT when a new owner acquires the vehicle. After that no more (unless sold again). This is actually quite cute, because most Ozzies customise their bikes heavily - and nobody ever checks whether this affectes the roadworthiness :-)
Hans
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