

On the other hand, he proposed that they can also seek Limited Trade Plates from some garages. He said that the LA plates are similar to the red and white plates more commonly referred to as garage plates. “But if they are going to drive it, don’t allow them to use your registration plates.”

They can hire the LA plates and can carry the vehicle wherever if they don’t have a wrecker or if they don’t want to it.

“Let them go to MTW hire some LA plates which are for the day, they’re for $10. “Persons are saying to you, ‘I’m going to bring back the number plates t you.’ But then, you don’t see them. However, Sergeant Seibert Johnson reiterated that the onus is on vehicle owners to demand their possessions up front, without excuse or any delay.

“So both persons have to be on the alert.” “Then you will be charged with Failure to Inform MTW and the person would be failing to register the vehicle and pay the taxes, because it’s the buyer’s duty to make sure the taxes are paid up and the vehicle is registered it’s your duty to inform the Ministry that you have sold the vehicle or the vehicle is no longer in your custody, it was written off. Other than that, it will rest with you, the previous owner. Or if the police have proof that that vehicle was in a collision and it was written off, no problem. “If the person informs the Ministry that the vehicle is sold, then no problem, or involved in an accident, no problem. “He or she is driving around with numbers that were assigned to someone else before.”Īnd he assured that this behaviour could spell trouble for both the previous vehicle owner and the purchaser if the vehicle gets into a collision. They’re gonna drive about with those numbers and that disc on that vehicle you know, because when the police check, they will observe that the disc is good and the registration numbers are good until January of the next year, not knowing that the person is not covered by taxes because it wasn’t his or her vehicle. “The reason for this being, if you pay for your vehicle in January and it is involved in an accident in May, the insurance company sells that car, someone bought it and repairs it. “Whenever you are selling your vehicle, remove the registration discs and registration numbers from that vehicle or even if that vehicle is involved in an accident, after the police complete their investigations, remove the car’s registration disc and your registration numbers from the vehicle,” cautioned Sergeant Seibert Johnson of the Royal Barbados Police Force, Traffic Division. This stern warning has been issued to motor vehicle owners by the Royal Barbados Police Force as it relates to retaining license plates and registration discs after vehicles have been sold or involved in accidents. “Don’t sell a vehicle with your registration discs or numbers affixed.
