Now bear in mind, that I know they use sleight of word to hide concepts, yet for some reason they seem bound to have to mention them, and it is a matter finding where they have hidden the truths we hold as obvious, yet still need to prove to the courts, if we step in there.
In this case they use the Never Mention Again trick, where they mention something, then never refer to it again. By doing so they hope you miss it, but they also acknowledge its existence and that they are not regulating it. What ever it is. I is a clever trick, as it releases them of liability, and works well at hiding concepts. They are easily overlooked when mentioned only once.
This man was traveling in his private unregistered, uninsured automobile, without a drivers license. There were no plates on the car. He did so for 17 days until he was pulled over and issued violation tickets/invoices for failure to have Motor Vehicle Documents.
Read the Act and you may find something very interesting. I guess it depends on your readig skills.
They define a number of things.
Vehicle
Motor Vehicle
Motor Vehicle Documents
and strangely enough something called a
'Private Passenger Vehicle'.
They only mention the private passenger vehicle in the definitions and later once to distinguish between those and commercial vehicles! All motor vehicle documents refer to those things that MOTOR VEHICLES need, and the only apparent difference between the two is the existence of the documents. Those include in the definitions the plates, stickers, licenses and permits, insurance documents and the like.
Having distinguished between the two, they cannot claim that one does not exist. And since they do not claim there is a need for any documentation for the PPV, nor do they attempt to regulate nor control their basic usage, it can be readily and easily claimed that the guy in question was merely using a private passenger vehicle, not a motor vehicle, and as such was not subject to the regulations covering the operation of motor vehicles.
Private Passenger Vehicles are clearly mentioned and distinguished from Motor Vehicles. Plates, insurance, permits and the like, are all explicitly restricted to Motor Vehicles. There is no requirement specifically mentioning any need for plates, permits, insurance or anything else in order to use a Private Passenger Vehicle on the public roads for private non-commercial purposes.
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