Petition to the government to not implement offences for modifying vehicles

[Mysterae_]

You may or may not be aware of the governments intention to make it unlawful to modify new and existing vehicles. You can read about it here.

Specifically, we would look to create:

• a specific offence for supplying, installing and/or advertising, a ‘tampering product’ for a vehicle or NRMM – this would apply where a principal effect of the product is to bypass, defeat, reduce the effectiveness of or render inoperative a system, part or component (the product may be a physical part or component, hardware and/or software)
• a specific offence for removing, reducing the effectiveness of, or rendering inoperative a system, part or component for a vehicle/NRMM and advertising such services
• a specific offence for allowing for use or providing a vehicle or NRMM that has had the operations described in the previous 2 points performed on it
• a new power to require economic operators to provide information, where a service/product they have supplied amounts to or enables ‘tampering’ with a vehicle or NRMM – this would apply in any of the above senses and include requirements to provide relevant information on the quantities of products sold or modified

There is a petition to get the subject raised in parliament, which has already achieved the required 100,000 signatures but the more signatures the more point will be driven home. The petition can be found here.

 

[Mysterae_]

I may be a bit cynical but I think it's more about the ever-growing adoption of electric cars and any future method of taxation and tracking. You'd be a fool to think they'll stop there.

The article does say:

We do not intend our proposals to:

• prevent legitimate motorsport activities
• prevent restoration, repairs or legitimate improvements to vehicles, such as classic cars or motorbikes
• negatively impact businesses involved in these activities

But would you trust the government not to renege on these "intentions"?

 

[Mysterae_]

Additionally to what @kindai said,

"a new power to require economic operators to provide information, where a service/product they have supplied amounts to or enables ‘tampering’ with a vehicle or NRMM – this would apply in any of the above senses and include requirements to provide relevant information on the quantities of products sold or modified"

So they want the purchasers details as well. Now why would they want that?