Motor Registration
Sir,—My experience of this work dates from the first year of registration, 1925, until 1963, and during those years the “new” owner was required to pay the change-of-owner-ship fee. The Motor Vehicles Act, 1924, gave the Registrar of Motor Vehicles “power to interpret,” and in this respect the then registrar ruled that “the new owner pays the transfer fee.” This instruction was known, and given effect to, by every deputy registrar and every motor dealer in the country. In the purchasing of a house or other property the buyer pays all relative charges in having the purchase registered in his name, and a motor vehicle, be it a “bomb” or the latest
Jaguar, is surely a piece of property. I consider that the ruling that has stood for 40 years is the correct one, based on common sense, and, while it cannot be expected that dealers will change their attitude after all these years, there is a solution open to those effecting a private sale: share the cost.—Yours, etc., LOU RICHARDSON. December 27, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 6
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