Limitation of registration actions - what are we talking about?

Most often, this type of punishment is imposed on a car as an increase in penalties.

If a fine for a traffic violation is not paid on time, the car is “tied” to the owner until the latter pays off the debt.

This preventive measure can also be applied when the car owner has arrears in alimony, rent, taxes, administrative offenses, customs disputes, and legal proceedings.

A ban is issued by the road traffic inspectorate, but it is requested by the body interested in this - customs, court, police, and so on.

Who can impose a ban?

Such restrictions are not imposed by traffic inspectors. The traffic inspectorate only follows the ban. They may refuse to register a person who has restrictions.

Bailiffs can impose a ban. Judicial organizations send a special document to the traffic police department. The document contains information about vehicle registration restrictions. It is the bailiff service that imposes restrictions on the car.

The grounds for the restriction are the debts of the car owner. A registration ban is a measure that must be taken to ensure that the owner cannot transfer the car, alienate it, sell it, donate it, or steal it somewhere.

Yes, you can sell a car with a ban, but in practice this makes little sense. After all, the new owner will not be able to re-register the car in his own name until you lift the ban, and the new owner will not be able to drive the car without registration. Therefore, it is unlikely that anyone will want to buy a car that they cannot drive. Selling a car with a ban is also stupid because transport taxes and fines will be paid to the old owner.

The procedure here will be standard - search for a resolution on the traffic police website, pay fines, receive a paper on lifting the ban, transfer information to the FSSP, and so on. Please note that the driver must deal with all these matters, however, if a power of attorney is concluded, the buyer can also be involved in lifting the ban.

• prohibition or restrictions on registration activities;
• prohibition from undergoing technical inspection:

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. Such a punitive measure was often used several years ago, because car owners have to undergo maintenance much more often than register a car, which means that it was possible to force the debtor to pay the bills much faster. However, the ban on undergoing maintenance deprived the car owner of the right to purchase an MTPL policy.

The most common punitive measures today are a ban or restriction of state registration.

The list of authorities is presented in the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “On the procedure for registering vehicles” (N1001 dated November 24, 2008). Among other things, it says that a ban or restriction may be imposed:

• by a court order (for non-payment of taxes, late payment of traffic police fines, debts to utility or credit organizations, as well as during the division of property);
• investigative authorities (if the car is wanted);
• Traffic police (if external discrepancies are detected in the car with the characteristics specified in the technical passport);
• social protection authorities;
• customs representatives (in case of violations of import rules or indication of false information about the vehicle);
• other bodies vested with the necessary powers.

Who has the authority to lift the ban?

It was mentioned just above that any government agency that has the authority and grounds can impose a ban on vehicle registration. Before lifting the restriction, you should check whether there are any fines or even lawsuits against the violator. To do this, go to the same traffic police website (listed in the previous section) and enter the vehicle identifier (VIN code, body or chassis number).

Then select Check for restrictions.

Make sure the type of restriction matches your request.

Just above you can see who issued the ban. This is very important information, since the removal of restrictions on registration actions with a car must be carried out by the same authority.

If you are not confident in using the Internet, it is better to go to the nearest traffic police department. There you will receive all the necessary information.

Main parameters

Before deciding on actions, you need to find out what it is - a ban on registration actions. Many citizens who do not understand the essence confuse the procedure with an arrest.

What it is

The ban on registration actions makes it impossible for the vehicle owner to contact the traffic police to carry out any procedures with the car.

If there are restrictions, the following are prohibited:

• registration of a vehicle to another owner after a purchase or sale or donation is made;
• replacement or restoration of documents for the car (vehicle passport, certificate of registration);
• making changes to the documents available on the car (repainting the car, installing gas equipment).

The grounds for refusal of registration actions are prescribed in Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 1001. According to the document, a negative decision is made both upon application by the owner himself and his representative.

Conscientious owners will not sell a car if there are restrictions. Therefore, before purchasing a vehicle, you need to find out whether there are any restrictions. Often citizens are faced with the fact that information is found out after purchasing the car.

Despite the fact that the car will cost several times less, there are also disadvantages to such a deal. The power of attorney itself does not give any rights to the car. In addition, registration will still be required. In this case, a person will need to spend a lot of time, effort and money to remove the restrictions.

The car owner may not agree with the established ban. In this case, he must contact the judicial authorities to appeal the document.

Procedure for lifting the ban

To remove the ban on registering a car with the traffic police, you must perform the following sequence of actions:

1. Find out the reason for the ban. This can be done by submitting a request to the traffic police or the authority that imposed the restriction.
2. Eliminate the reason for the punishment. Most often this is a fine that just needs to be paid. But there may be more serious reasons - for example, non-compliance with the Euro-5 standard or the presence of unauthorized changes in the design of the car.
3. Submit a statement indicating that you have corrected the situation.

But what to do if the ban was imposed without reason? Then you need to challenge the decision in court.

How to challenge a restriction

First of all, you need to check the date the ban was issued. If more than ten days have passed since this moment, then, in addition to a statement about the unfairness of the sanction, you will have to write an explanatory note as to why you did not challenge the decision within the prescribed period.

You can challenge a sanction not only because it is unfair, but also when you did not receive a copy of the decision (in hand or by mail). In any case, you should not count on a quick lifting of the ban.

Then you need to write statements to the court and the bailiff department. In the latter, inform that you intend to challenge the sanction in court and demand that the appeal period be restored. If the court rules in your favor, the restriction will be lifted.

How to find out if there is a ban on car registration

If the inspector knows the document number, then he can check for restrictions on the bailiff's page. For this purpose, you need to copy the document number into a special field.

There is a possibility that checking the numbers will not give any results.

In this case, it is better to check the presence of debts on the website of the bailiff service. It contains information about enforcement proceedings. If there is not one, but several proceedings against the debtor, then one of them may impose a restriction on the car. In order to find out the reason for imposing the restriction, you need to call the bailiff. You need to call the bailiff indicated in the documents.

Information about the ban is stored in the traffic police database, and you can check this information using the traffic police website or the FSSP. Below we will look at these verification methods.

The check is carried out like this:

1. Open the traffic police website, select “Services” and “Car check” or follow the direct link https://gibdd.rf/check/auto.
2. Enter the vehicle’s VIN code, select “Restrictions” and click the “Request Verification” button. Wait for the operation to complete.
3. If there is a ban, then a special window will pop up, where all the basic information about the ban will be indicated (the basis for imposing the ban, the court order, the name of the bailiff, and so on). If there is no prohibition, a window will pop up indicating that the relevant information was not found.

Check through the FSSP

It is not recommended to buy a car with restrictions, since you will not be able to re-register it in your name until the former owner removes the restrictions. Since re-registration is not available to you, you will not be able to obtain a license for the car, so you will not have the legal opportunity to drive the car.

The ban on registration actions only applies to actions related to the re-registration of a car to another person. Therefore, a prohibited driver can drive a car, transport goods, take out insurance for a vehicle, buy other cars, and so on. However, please note that in the future the FSSP may take more serious measures.

Yes, you can. If a registration restriction is imposed on a trailer, then the same rules apply as in the case of a car (you cannot re-register the trailer, but you can operate it in any way). There are no penalties for this.

If the FSSP has made a decision to seize the car, but the confiscation has not yet occurred, then you can use one trick - when searching for cars, traffic police officers use a database that applies only to the current region, and information from other regions is not available to them. For example, a car is registered in the Leningrad region, and a traffic police inspector stopped you on the road in the Moscow region - in this case, after a check, you will be released, since the check will show that you are clean before the law.

Yes, you can scrap a car with a registration restriction, but in practice this makes little sense. After all, the scrapped car will still be registered with you until you deregister it, and if there is a ban, it is impossible to deregister. If you pay transport tax, then after disposal you will still be required to pay all payments.

To avoid hassles when buying a used car, it is best to check the restrictions on the car before committing to a transaction. It is necessary to send a corresponding request to the traffic police or bailiffs.

To check with the State Road Safety Inspectorate, you will need to provide the registration details of the car: number, make, model, VIN, etc. To check a vehicle with the bailiff service, you need to know the passport details of the car seller. They will be used to search for debts to various government and commercial entities.

Nowadays, when purchasing a car, most buyers know that it is best to check the car before concluding a contract. This can be done by providing official information from the traffic police database. On our website you can find out how to check a driver for fines and a car via the Internet. On the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate website, using the “Check Restrictions” service in the “Checking Cars” section, you can find out whether there is a ban on registration actions. You can get the information you are interested in by knowing the VIN or body number of the car.

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Checking through the traffic police website is the most informative. Indeed, in relation to the previous owner or the owner of the car you are interested in, orders banning the registration of the car could be issued by bailiffs of different constituent entities of the Russian Federation. On the official website of the Federal Bailiff Service for the region you can find out in more detail why exactly the ban was applied and the amount of debt.

Please note that it will be possible to lift the ban on vehicle registration only if each such ban has a document confirming its removal.

How to write an application to lift a restriction

If you were given a ban fairly, then, having sorted out all the shortcomings, you need to write an application to lift the ban. Check out his sample:

As you can see, filling it out is not difficult. As already noted, you can write a statement only after fulfilling all the requirements of the initiator of the punishment. The court will make a decision after checking this information.