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Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
When your vehicle has reached the end of its usefulness, you must get it…
Find an authorised treatment facility (ATF) where your vehicle can be…
When you make an insurance claim because your vehicle is damaged, your…
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
Find out how much you have to pay and where you have to collect your vehicle from if it's been clamped or impounded
Tell the police and your insurance company if your vehicle has been stolen straight away - telling DVLA, vehicle tax refunds and personalised registration numbers
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Report a manufacturer or a dealer for making or selling new vehicles, vehicle parts and vehicle accessories with safety problems.
Being stopped by the police or DVSA - fixed penalties, roadside prohibitions, driving without an operator's licence, immobilisation and impounding.
CMA provisionally clears Copart’s completed purchase of Hills Motors following new evidence
Overview of the vehicle operator licensing system.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
You can report an abandoned vehicle like a dumped car to the local council
Illegal Teesside scrap site with hundreds of cars piled up must now be cleared following Environment Agency investigation.
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