Motor vehicle registration

Generally, privately built cars registered in any of the European Union countries must demonstrate compliance with a range of National regulations and EU directives, including, for example, that they have adequate seat-belt arrangement and a calculation of frontal/side impact resistance likely to protect passengers and pedestrians in certain types of accidents.

Kit cars supplied as bare chassis without bodywork and with unguarded wheels do not meet EU safety criteria for registration.

The United Kingdom operates a four-track type approval system that can lead to a Certificate of Conformity (CoC).

[7] Registration of motorised road vehicles in India is done by local Regional Transport Offices of the states.

[citation needed] A latest move by the Government of India may centralise the registration procedure in order to curb the corruption which prevails with all the regional transport offices.

Dealerships employ registration specialists to accumulate and complete the paperwork necessary to title and register the vehicle.

Registration clerks, up until 2006, had to track each deal using paper calendars and logbooks, a relatively inefficient process that resulted in millions of dollars in DMV fines and penalties incurred by dealerships.

Technology was introduced with the introduction of the Business Partner Automation program (BPA), which allowed participating dealerships to file registrations electronically.

Anyone who has applied for or received a vehicle registration must notify DMV of a new residence within 10 days or face a typical fine of $178.

[10] The color pink was chosen to draw car owners' attention to it, to help prevent the document from being discarded with other non-essential paperwork.

The most popular is "Vehicle verification via SMS Services" launched by the Excise Department of Pakistan in Punjab and separately in the capital Islamabad in 2013.