Ministry of Road Transport and Highways formalises registration for vintage vehicles

Our Reporter
Dimapur, July 18 (EMN): With an aim to preserve and promote the heritage of vintage vehicles, the registration process of vintage motor vehicles has been formalised, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari informed on Sunday.

In a series of Twitter updates, Gadkari announced that “with no existing rules for regulating the process of registration across different states, the new rules shall provide a hassle-free process along with salient features such as retention of old number for already registered vehicles and a “VA” series (Unique Registration Mark) for fresh registrations.”

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways amended CMVR 1989, formalising the registration process of vintage motor vehicles. This is aimed at preserving and promoting the heritage of old vehicles in India, a PIB report stated on Sunday.

The salient features for registration as per the PIB update are all two/four wheelers, 50+ years old, maintained  in their original form and which have not undergone any substantial overhaul, would be defined as vintage motor vehicles.

Application for registration/re-registration will be made as per Form 20 and would be accompanied by an insurance policy, fee, bill of entry in case of imported vehicles, and old RC in case of an already registered vehicle in India.

The State Registering Authority will issue a certificate of registration as per Form 23A, within 60 days.

Vehicles already registered can retain their original registration mark.  However, for fresh registration, registration mark will be assigned as “XX VA YY*”, where VA stands for vintage, XX stands for state code, YY will be a two-letter series and “*” is a number from 0001 to 9999 allotted by the state registering authority. The fee for new registration is INR 20,000 and subsequent re-registration at INR 5,000. Vintage motor vehicles will not be driven on roads for regular/commercial purposes, it stated.