Motoring FAQs with answers by Suffolk Police :- tinyurl.com/2ortbn
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I like this bit under workmen parking,
.......the placing of buckets, barrows and ladders in the road to reserve a parking space may constitute an obstruction of the highway and is not a lawful method of restricting parking or reserving a parking place...........
I'll have to remember that one when I'm looking for a parking space.
Chris
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Interesting, and straightforward.
It puts a new slant on that old question about driving to and from MOT s without road tax. It gives the rules a narrower interpretation than those stated, for example, on a failure notification. The latter says you can drive an untaxed car to a garage in order to have MOT work carried out. It doesn't say this has to be AFTER a failure - it implies it could be BEFORE in order to do work already known to be necessary.
The FAQ also makes clear that after a failure the car can be taken only to a garage to have repair work carried out. No mention of taking it home instead, which again is implicitly stated on the test notification.
Interesting it does not say that many MOT failure points make the car illegal to use even if otherwise covered by the exemption.
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... It puts a new slant on that old question about driving to and from MOT s without road tax ..
i think the police faq uses the word "garage" loosely as any place to repair the car. it does not define garage as a legal word.
the "real law" with regard to displaying "tax disc" is given at
section22 of Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22)
www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/Ukpga_19940022_en_8....2
and a simple version of it is given on the back of the vt30
www.vosa.gov.uk/vosacorp/forms/vehicletestforms/ve...m
the need for an mot is covered in road traffic acts 1988 sects 45, 47, 49 & 53 ( as opposed to the vehicle-excise act 1994 which covers the tax-disc)
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For goodness sakes its supposed to be a bit of plain english explanation of some laws, not the laws themselves. "Not defined this", "hasn;t included that", my god some people need to get out more.
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For goodness sakes its supposed to be a bit of plain english explanation of some laws ..
1. all very well, and i know that, and you know that, but plainly some people don't. and who can blame them when the web site is an official police one.
2. and which is why i gently pointed to theactual laws rather than their interpretaion by the police.
i.m.o. - the web site should make it clear that it is just plain english explanation, just that and no more. i cannot see where it says so. if it does, where is it?
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That's exactly the point. Someone is going to wonder "can I do this?" go to the website, and find the police apparently say they can. If in fact they can't, or it's a "yes, but" then they will be in trouble with those very police. That's the difference between asking the police and taking it from Joe Bloggs in the pub.
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Unless you speak to a policeman conversant in traffic law you will invariably get given a duff answer (mm duff)
even two traffic men in the same car cant always agree
not a slarg''''''''''
just an observation by the way
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