Mobility Parking Scheme (MPS) information for GPs

If you’re a GP, we need your help to ensure that only eligible people receive an MPS card. It's difficult and unfair when eligible people can't park in designated MPS spaces because ineligible people are abusing MPS cards and parking illegally.

Every application for an MPS card will need to be signed by a registered medical doctor. The medical certificate on the MPS application form asks you to certify that the applicant is eligible for an MPS card based on certain criteria. You will also need to record your Provider Number on the form, as the application will not be accepted without it.

Note:  A person with a Clinically Recognisable Disability (CRD)  that is recorded by the RTA does not need a fresh medical certificate to renew their MPS card.

Medical certificates are only valid for six months from the date of certification when the customer applies for an Individual MPS card. The medical certificate for a Temporary MPS card is only valid for a three-month period commencing from the date the medical certificate is signed.

Please advise your patients that nearly all motor registries have wheelchair access. If necessary, an appointment can be made with registries for a convenient time to have a photograph taken.

To be eligible for an MPS card, a person must be disabled.

Under current legislation this means someone:

• Who is unable to walk due to the permanent or temporary loss of use of one or both legs or other permanent medical or physical condition; or 
• Whose physical condition is detrimentally affected as a result of walking 100 metres; or
• Who requires the use of crutches, a walking frame, callipers, scooter, wheelchair or other similar mobility aid.

MPS cards are also available to people who are permanently blind.

Guidelines for permanent blindness from the Commonwealth Social Security Act 1991 are:

1. Visual acuity on the Snellen Scale after correction by suitable lenses must be less than 6/60 in both eyes, or
2. Constriction to within 10 degrees of fixation in the better eye irrespective of corrected visual acuity, or
3. A combination of visual defects in the same degree of visual impairment as that occurring in (1) or (2) above.

The minimum age to be issued with an MPS card is three (3) years of age.

If you need any further information please call us on 13 22 13.