Pretty sure it's illegal to even remove them from a car body.
It's definitely illegal to fit them to another car/shell/body other then the one they were assigned to from factory. (It's called re-birthing).
Pretty sure it's illegal to even remove them from a car body.
It's definitely illegal to fit them to another car/shell/body other then the one they were assigned to from factory. (It's called re-birthing).
No its not illegal to remove them if you paint your car wouldnt you take them off them put them back on when finished
i have two off my torana in my safe
I'd be very careful assuming that. I doubt you are stating that from an actual legal point of view.Originally Posted by Glacier 73
What I wouldn't do personally may or may not be against the law.
I notice ebay say it is against policy to offer even compliance plate rivets for sale.
and NO I don't report items to ebay. I'm not a nark or a dog.
Thats funny because people have bought tags and rivets off ebay
i have bought rivets off ebay my self no problem at all for when i put my tags back on no big deal
some of the gtho guys have there compliance plates off for safe keeping
cant see it being a problem if they go back on the same car
So how many years did you study law innuendo
Absolutely zero that's why I add caution. Random thoughts don't make factual law.
That's why I wrote
Can't find a definitive answer after a quick search but I did dig this up from an Australian Government website.
http://www.crimeprevention.gov.au/In...ime_Module.pdf
The chapter on Motor Vehicle Theft (about compliance plates) in part reads:
"While changing these makes it easier to re-birth cars, it is not an offence
to remove or tamper with compliance plates in most Australian states."
Make of it what you will.
I'm with Gene on this, remove them to paint and restore should be fine so long as they are 100% going back on the same original body/shell.
How many did you study? "Guessing" that it's ok isn't a legal precedent. Like Innuendo, I was under the impression that technically, removing tags at all is illegal. There's no task force allocated to track down people who've removed them for painting or security purposes, but if you we're to drive your vehicle to the paint shop with no tags and you got pulled over by vehicle inspectors for a thorough going over then you may have trouble convincing them that they belong to the car and that they should let you put them back on.
From what I remember of the applicable regs only licenced repairers (ie; mechanics and/or panel beaters) are permitted to remove any form of compliance or identifying feature of the vehicle and only during the course of a repair. That said, if the repair is that significant then why is the vehicle being repaired? These bush lawyers who feel it is their right to remove compliance and/or VIN plates for a respray of the vehicle (or even to put the plates in storage if they are so "valuable") are running the risk of either questions of actual forensic ID of the vehicle when they come to register or pit it, or even the police impounding and, under a court order, destroying the vehicle.
Not worth the risk. The rules/regs are yet to catch-up with the restoration industry.
Nunc est bibendum...
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