Changing Defender tax type from Van to Car?
Discussion
Can it be done?
We have had our land rover Defender since 2014, has only done 70000 miles on it.
In the local area we are having a clean air zone installed, starting in May next year. According to the internet, even though the Defender looks like a car, it is taxed as a small van. This will cost me £10 per day to use it after May 1st?
It has 7 seats, glass all round, and has never been used as a van. Could I complete a form with the DVLA to get it classified as a car or do I have to suck it up going forward?
We have had our land rover Defender since 2014, has only done 70000 miles on it.
In the local area we are having a clean air zone installed, starting in May next year. According to the internet, even though the Defender looks like a car, it is taxed as a small van. This will cost me £10 per day to use it after May 1st?
It has 7 seats, glass all round, and has never been used as a van. Could I complete a form with the DVLA to get it classified as a car or do I have to suck it up going forward?
I thought that a legal case in the 1950's found that a Land-Rover was a dual-purpose vehicle.
Statutory Instruments
1986 No. 1078
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986
dual-purpose vehicle
a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description, being a vehicle of which the unladen weight does not exceed 2040 kg, and which either—
(i)
is so constructed or adapted that the driving power of the engine is, or by the appropriate use of the controls of the vehicle can be, transmitted to all the wheels of the vehicle; or
(ii)
satisfies the following conditions as to construction, namely—
(a)
the vehicle must be permanently fitted with a rigid roof, with or without a sliding panel;
(b)
the area of the vehicle to the rear of the driver's seat must—
(i)
be permanently fitted with at least one row of transverse seats (fixed or folding) for two or more passengers and those seats must be properly sprung or cushioned and provided with upholstered back-rests, attached either to the seats or to a side or the floor of the vehicle; and
(ii)
be lit on each side and at the rear by a window or windows of glass or other transparent material having an area or aggregate area of not less than 1850 square centimetres on each side and not less than 770 square centimetres at the rear; and
(c)
the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the row of transverse seats satisfying the requirements specified in head (i) of sub-paragraph (b) (or, if there is more than one such row of seats, the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the rearmost such row) must, when the seats are ready for use, be not less than one-third of the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the rearmost part of the floor of the vehicle.
Statutory Instruments
1986 No. 1078
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986
dual-purpose vehicle
a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description, being a vehicle of which the unladen weight does not exceed 2040 kg, and which either—
(i)
is so constructed or adapted that the driving power of the engine is, or by the appropriate use of the controls of the vehicle can be, transmitted to all the wheels of the vehicle; or
(ii)
satisfies the following conditions as to construction, namely—
(a)
the vehicle must be permanently fitted with a rigid roof, with or without a sliding panel;
(b)
the area of the vehicle to the rear of the driver's seat must—
(i)
be permanently fitted with at least one row of transverse seats (fixed or folding) for two or more passengers and those seats must be properly sprung or cushioned and provided with upholstered back-rests, attached either to the seats or to a side or the floor of the vehicle; and
(ii)
be lit on each side and at the rear by a window or windows of glass or other transparent material having an area or aggregate area of not less than 1850 square centimetres on each side and not less than 770 square centimetres at the rear; and
(c)
the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the row of transverse seats satisfying the requirements specified in head (i) of sub-paragraph (b) (or, if there is more than one such row of seats, the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the rearmost such row) must, when the seats are ready for use, be not less than one-third of the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the rearmost part of the floor of the vehicle.
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