Motoring68 mins ago
can someone help with this?
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The Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilization, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 1997(as amended). Under this scheme untaxed vehicles on the public highway will be clamped after which time the motorist has 24hrs to claim the vehicle and pay the �80 de-clamp fee before the vehicle is removed to the vehicle pound. After removal to the pound the motorist is required to pay �160 release fee plus storage charges before the vehicle can be released.
In both cases the motorist must prove ownership of the vehicle and have a valid tax disc. If no tax disc is present for the vehicle then �120 surety fee must be paid(which is repayable if a tax disc is produced within 14 days).
WHAT HAPPENS TO VEHICLES NOT ON THE HIGHWAY?
If a vehicle is on private land the council must first serve a 15-day notice on the landowner. Once the 15 days have expired the vehicle will then be treated as if on the highway.
This relates to "wrecks" (i.e. those cars without residual value - vandalised, burnt out or of little or no saleable value - check your own councils website for their particular policy.
I would not be happy if the council came onto my land and removed a car, I not sure if that wouldn't be theft, especially if it was a vintage and intended for restoring.
It seems that it is only the landowner who gets notified but I'm not sure about that as they don't go out of their way to take cars on private land unless asked.
I do know of someone that this happend to - he had to pay for the tow, tax the vehicle, show mot and insurance before he was allowed to haver it back.
Prior to the Road Traffic Act 1988, most offences, such as this, Dangerous Driving (which was then Reckless diving) could only be commited on the Public Highway. The 1988 Act inroduced the addition of a'Public Place' also.
Afraid it is a fair cop here I think. That's not to say that I believe that some of the New Car Tax Rules or fair - I bought a car for my nephew, put it in his name straght away, then he changed his mind about wanting it. The tax was running out the following month. When I went to tax it (after insuring it in my name) I was told that I could not use the V5 receipt, and would have to wait for the full V5 - ofcourse, this did not come in the fourteen day period and an automatic fine was issued to my nephew (as it was in his name). Then, to tax it, I had to put my nephew down on my insurance just to get it taxed - cost me a fortune, despite the fact that I was one of the law abiding people that tried every way to tax it.
Sorry if I went of on a bit of a tangent - should have started a new thread for that on (might do!)
Regards,
Steve