{"id":12474,"date":"2010-04-21T02:11:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2010-04-21T02:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:11:41","slug":"road-tax-and-mot-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/21\/road-tax-and-mot-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Road tax and MOT obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>The rumour has been going around for some time, but until now I haven&#8217;t heard anything credible.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.onthisisland.com\/road-tax-stickers-illegal\/2010\/04\/15\/\">OnThisIsland.com<\/a> linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyprus-mail.com\/cyprus\/remove-road-tax-disc\/20100408\">an article Cyprus Mail<\/a> about the new law regarding road tax and MOT paper disks &#8211; they are obsolete.\u00a0 Furthermore, having them displayed can get you in trouble.\u00a0 Not only they obscure a tiny useless part of your windscreen, but traffic police can issue a 50 EUR fine for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyprus-mail.com\/cyprus\/remove-road-tax-disc\/20100408\">The article<\/a>, dated April 8 2010, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ioannis Nicolaides, Head of Technical Services at the Road Transport department said the law was passed in parliament three weeks ago and came into effect two weeks ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that quite some time has passed and traffic police can easily switch from warnings to actual fines.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have MOT displayed on my windscreen, but the road tax I will remove tomorrow morning.\u00a0 And, also, being a &#8220;computer guy&#8221; this is just music to my ears:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The discs are now obsolete, as all registration data is computerised and ready to hand for road traffic police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>The rumour has been going around for some time, but until now I haven&#8217;t heard anything credible.\u00a0 OnThisIsland.com linked to an article Cyprus Mail about the new law regarding road tax and MOT paper disks &#8211; they are obsolete.\u00a0 Furthermore, having them displayed can get you in trouble.\u00a0 Not only they obscure a tiny useless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/21\/road-tax-and-mot-obsolete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road tax and MOT obsolete<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[27,577],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-driving","tag-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The rumour has been going around for some time, but until now I haven&#039;t heard anything credible. 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