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A consultation paper with proposals for how to regulate the motor salvage industry was issued on 27 April 2000. 

It put forward 3 options:

• to rely on present controls, which are limited because the motor salvage and dismantling industry is only regulated for environmental purposes
  
  

• to apply a voluntary Code of Practice across the entire motor salvage industry.  This was developed by the insurance industry and was aimed at the responsible disposal of vehicles written-off by insurers
  
  

• to introduce statutory regulation

26 organisations replied to the consultation document. Of these 22 endorsed the proposal for statutory regulation. As a result, the Home Secretary decided that statutory regulation was the preferred way forward.

Here are the key documents relating to the consultation: 

• Motor Salvage Industry: consultation on the proposal to regulate the industry (27 April 2000)
  
  

• Government's proposals for legislation in the Vehicles (Crime) Bill (7 December 2000)
  
  

• The subsequent Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 received royal assent on 10 April 2001
  
  

• Full Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Regulation of the Motor Salvage Industry (11 January 2001)
  
  

• A further consultation on the regulations stemming from the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 was issued in 2002.

  Motor Salvage Industry consultation paper on regulations, ending 1 March 2002

   

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Last update: 05 October 2004