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| Thread ID: 65249 | 2006-01-12 02:12:00 | Is it an offence to park outside your own house with an expired WOF? | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 420346 | 2006-01-12 10:16:00 | You would have been better off getting it "stolen". Doesnt pay to be honest when local councils treat law-abiding people like criminals. |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 420347 | 2006-01-12 13:45:00 | Is it an offence to park outside your own house with an expired WOF? As a warranted traffic officer the answer to that question is NO. No vehicle is allowed to be driven on a road without any CURRENT evidence of inspection (ie WOF or COF) unless you are on your way to get that evidence of inspection. So basically you can park it on the road but you cannot drive it unless you are going to get the WOF or COF whichever is required. You got the ticket not for parking the car on the road but for failing to display current evdience of inspection. Hope that clears thinngs up. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 420348 | 2006-01-12 19:56:00 | So basically you can park it on the road but you cannot drive it unless you are going to get the WOF or COF whichever is required. You got the ticket not for parking the car on the road but for failing to display current evdience of inspection. Doesn't your last sentence contradict the one above it? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 420349 | 2006-01-12 21:17:00 | As a warranted traffic officer the answer to that question is NO. chiefnz uh, Are you a parking warden or a cop? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 420350 | 2006-01-12 21:25:00 | uh, Are you a parking warden or a cop? Teehee, meter-maid. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 420351 | 2006-01-12 23:12:00 | Doesn't your last sentence contradict the one above it? No, it doesn't because the tickets are issued by the city councils under their bye-laws. Having said that it should be made a national offence, not just a local offence, as it is in the UK, to have any unregistered, uninsured, unwarranted vehicle on the road, whether being driven or not. The laws are generally too slack here, probably harking back to earlier 'colonial days' when it seemed 'almost anything went'. Anything Goes (www.redhotjazz.com) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 420352 | 2006-01-12 23:45:00 | The laws are generally too slack here, probably harking back to earlier 'colonial days' when it seemed 'almost anything went'. In the Colonial days, the British were running the country. :groan: We now have NZ'ers running the place...thank god! :thumbs: There are enough laws here in NZ thankyou very much. Maybe it is the behaviour of the British people which creates the need for more laws?? I don't mean to be offensive Terry, but I'm a proud 4th generation NZ'er and we're doing just fine thankyou. |
MMM (5660) | ||
| 420353 | 2006-01-12 23:56:00 | NZ is not doing so fine regarding the number of antisocial hoons, boy racers, cars stolen and burnt out at the road side, and so on. I'm not saying it is better in the UK, just saying what the law is there, as Surfer Joe said what the Californian laws are. 'Colonial days' was just a turn of phrase, NZers have been firmly in control since the early days of motoring. El tougho if you dont like what I say, but it pays to raise ones head out of the sand every now and then. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 420354 | 2006-01-13 00:23:00 | uh, Are you a parking warden or a cop? Well for all intense purposes I have enforecment powers from both of them. I have certain powers vested in me under the local authority's by-laws and I also have powers vested in me under... 1) Section 113(2) paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of the Land Transport Act 1998. 2) Schedule 2A of the Transport Act 1962 which includes breaches of by-laws for parking. 3) Section 37(1) and (2) of the Transport Services Licensing Act 1989. Hope that clears things up Metla. :) Originally Posted by chiefnz So basically you can park it on the road but you cannot drive it unless you are going to get the WOF or COF whichever is required. You got the ticket not for parking the car on the road but for failing to display current evdience of inspection. Doesn't your last sentence contradict the one above it? No it doesn't, maybe I put the word NOT in the wrong place. Basically what I meant was, that the infringement was issued for failing to display current evidence of inspection... it was not issued for parking an uninspected vehicle on the road. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 420355 | 2006-01-13 00:36:00 | Just to clear this up...it is a national offence (as opposed to a by-law) to park a vehicle on a road (or in any public place for that matter) without WOF or current license (registration). Anyone, anywhere doing the above is up for a $200 fine for each of the above offences (ie no WOF and no license =$400), it doesn't matter where you live. Whether councils task their officers to write offence notices out for this is up to them, but I can't see them not cos it would bring in a fair bit of revenue. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
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