A recent press release from DVLA confirms that Local Office closures are going ahead and will be phased over October, November and December 2013.
It is stated that “Key to the improvements is centralising the DVLA’s services and making more transactions available online. This will make it easier than ever for people to deal with the agency at a time and place that suits.”
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The official launch date, November 13th 2012 for MOT exemption on pre 1960 vehicles draws closer, but many important questions still remain unanswered. Details of all pre 1960 vehicles will be withdrawn from the VOSA database, meaning that the results of any voluntary MoT service offered will not be recorded on the official VOSA database. This means that there will be no real benefit for continuation on a voluntary basis, as the results will be unavailable to Police or other official sources.
ShareWe have known of trials being conducted into the way, and by whom, vehicle identity checks were to be made. As always we have waited until we have provable information before making these concerns known to our members.
As part of the Governments review into Public Sector spending both DVLA and VOSA has undergone examination to ensure money is spent as wisely as possible.
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To understand how we have got to where we are with SVA and BIVA, we really need to understand where the legislators who dreamed all this up were coming from. In the end it all comes down to safety, with a touch of identity thrown in for consumer protection along the way.
Type Approval was introduced across Western Europe in the 1970s as part of an effort to ensure the car buyers’ safety by the fledgling EU (known then as the EEC for those who can remember that far back). As it was originally envisaged Type Approval would have, from 1977, banned any modifications at all and had it not been for the work of Rodders and the fledgling kit car industry that resulted in a consultation period, that led to the introduction of SVA, who knows where we would actually be now?
SharePreviously it has been possible to prove the date of manufacture of an engine, for SVA/BIVA emission testing, by providing proof of the donor vehicle.
However this has now changed for various reasons and ties into revisions earlier this year when notifying DVLA of engine changes on the V5C as ACE reported: -
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We had heard rumours of changes in DVLA procedure for reporting and dealing with display of non-compliant number plates, which meant de-registration of the vehicle for first offence if not dealt with promptly and without warning for a second offence.
The owner of the offending vehicle would receive a letter giving 28 days to have a set of complying plates fitted and a confirmation photo to be sent back. If this were not received within 28 days the vehicle would automatically be deregistered on the 29th day.
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After the introduction of the new BIVA test at the end of April it had become obvious that issues were occurring with finished builds that didn’t comply with the new EC43 only glass specifications. Currently an amnesty, for a period of 12 months, been granted to allow current projects to be completed without the need for purchases of replacement glazing.
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