Written answers

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Department of Transport

Motor Vehicle Registration

5:00 am

Photo of Joe McHughJoe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 138: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the responsibility for signing the statutory declaration for vehicle registration and licensing has moved from the competency of Peace Commissioner to Commissioner of Oaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24326/10]

Photo of Noel DempseyNoel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department through the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) maintains a record of the 'Registered Owners' of motor vehicles. Article 10 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 to 2008 sets out the procedures in respect of the notification and recording of changes of vehicle ownership through the completion of the relevant portion of the Vehicle Registration Certificate (VRC).

To cater for isolated instances where the legal requirements cannot be complied with because the VRC is not available or cannot be produced for genuine reasons my Department, through administrative process, accepts a declaration that ownership of a vehicle has changed in the form of a statutory declaration sworn before a Commissioner of Oaths, notaries public or a Peace Commissioner.

The categories of person who are authorized to sign the declarations have not changed.

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