With my reminder to renew my road tax came an advisory slip drawing my attention to a new law for 2011.
Effectively it says that my car has to be either insured or SORNed.
So if I have a valid road tax, but choose to put my car away in its garage for a couple of months and have an insurance gap while I am not using it, I am liable for various penalties. Apparently I now have to return my tax disc (even if it is a zero cost Historic one) and declare SORN, and then apply for another tax disc once have insured the car. I can see life getting very complicated if the MOT runs out while the car is stored, which wouldn't have been a problem if the previous tax disc had been allowed to remain in force.
Does anyone know what the legislation actually says, as opposed to the DVLA's pocket interpretation of it?
Jim