Selling a car without RWC what are my obligations?

[Cuppa]

I sold a car with no RWC and it still had registration. The buyer filled out and signed the transfer forms. He said he would get it transferred asap and I didn't think about it again.
The next year I got the registration renewal in the mail. Took the transfer forms in and straight away they put it in his name and sent him the bill for the rego. They gave him something like 14 days to come up with a RWC too.

You were lucky. If during that time the buyer had scored any fines they could well have come to you & then you have the hassle of convincing the authorities (not VicRoads) that you were not responsible.

A number of years ago I drove our bus up to Melbourne & camped the night outside a factory ready to get a 6 metre awning fitted the following morning. Unknown to me, whilst I slept, some scumbag stole my rego plates. I managed to drive home to Gippsland none the wiser & parked the bus in the shed. First I knew of the plates having been stolen was when I received an infringement notice for parking somewhere I had never been. It was then I realised the plates were missing. I jumped through all the hoops & eventually after 2 or 3 months of letters back & forth the case was dropped. What really peed me off was that I was never told ‘found innocent’, only that I had been let off with a warning!