It is strictly forbidden to use vehicles with expired registration.
On the afternoon of February 25, the National Traffic Safety Committee issued Official Dispatch 05 implementing legal regulations on technical safety for road and inland waterway motor vehicles.
According to the National Traffic Safety Committee, violations of regulations on technical safety, registration and inspection of vehicles are currently very complicated. Typical examples include the use of homemade three-wheeled vehicles; road motor vehicles with expired registration or expired usage period; unregistered inland waterway vehicles; using unregistered electric motorbikes; importing and trading in electric motor vehicles without technical safety and environmental protection inspection.
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These are serious violations of the law on technical safety of vehicles, endangering vehicle users and road users, and potentially leading to traffic accidents. In fact, many traffic accidents have occurred, causing great loss of life and property.
The National Traffic Safety Committee requested the Ministry of Transport to continue to widely publicize the list of road motor vehicles that have expired their use period and expired inspection; request inspection units nationwide to actively coordinate with local traffic police forces in controlling and implementing procedures to stop the operation of expired vehicles; and strictly handle violations according to the law.
Promote administrative procedure reform, create the most favorable conditions for people to register and inspect inland waterway vehicles according to legal regulations. Conduct investigation, assessment, synthesis, and statistics on the number of inland waterway vehicles, especially passenger vehicles.
The national traffic police force shall increase patrols, control, and strictly handle acts of using homemade three-wheeled vehicles, road motor vehicles with expired registration or expired usage period, vehicles that have not completed registration and inspection procedures, especially three- and four-wheeled vehicles with electric motors; strengthen propaganda and mobilize people to register and attach license plates to electric motorbikes and electric motorcycles before July 1, 2016.
The waterway traffic police force presides over and coordinates with the Vietnam Register and related units to develop a special topic combining propaganda, mobilization, inspection, handling of violations and on-site registration and inspection of inland waterway vehicles for people.
The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Finance directed the Border Guard and Customs forces to continue to step up the fight against smuggling and trade fraud in the import of electric motor vehicles.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade directs the Market Management force to strengthen inspection, detection and strict handling of violations of legal regulations on the production and trading of road motor vehicles in general and electric motor vehicles nationwide./.
According to VOV