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Dear Editor,
The manure is about to hit the fan. We have a government agency which is at an impasse (constipated) and does not have the ability or capacity to do the work they have taken on but another agency is seeing this an opportunity to stick it to the very people who they are supposed to be working for and whom are paying their wages.
There have been rumbling that there is not the normal revenue being generated by the payment of vehicle registrations and thus to make up for this shortfall, instead of figuring out where the impasse (constipation) is, let’s just shake the public down for more revenue in the form of charging them 25%-50% on top of the high yearly vehicle registration.

First of all is this legal? 25%? The last time I looked, and I have not heard of any new legislation and the gazetting of such, it was 10% for late registration. Where did the 25% come from? Why not 75% or 100%?
Maybe it is time for the Attorney General to get busy. They stepped in to clarify that PWD had no business asking for proof of inspection and stopped that.
They should have checked the statutes and laws and told PWD exactly what was considered for roadworthy and not what the higher ups in PWD have suddenly decided was not roadworthy (dents, surface rust, dirty exterior, dirty interior, etc).
The Road Worthiness Inspection currently being done is on a form stated to be authorized in the “Road Traffic Act of 1998 Section 39”.
However I find that Section 39 refers to Vehicle Temporarily Imported Exempt From Registration and From Tax. So is this even a legal document? If not why are they using it???
Try getting the government agencies working together. How did PWD ever expect that they would get all the vehicles inspected when they did not even start doing any inspections until after the new year.
And on top of that drivers MUST register for an inspection time and then very, very few vehicles passed the first time and all the return inspections then put the booked/registered owner on the back foot.
I do not have any pity for the Hyundi buses that are having a hard time getting inspections.
Those and many other public vehicles need to be off the roads. Public vehicles should come under an must harder inspection than private vehicles.
Here is thinking outside the box: be like some countries and some states in the USA and territories in Australia that do not have annual inspection on private vehicles.
It is not the responsibility of the government to police the private vehicle safety but they have the right to stop vehicles on the public highways and give them tickets/citations for any faults on their vehicle. Example: owners should have functioning lights, horn, etc.
If you have a light out or a fault you can be stopped and fined up to $50 per fault. The government puts the responsibility on the driver but they get the revenue when they enforce the law.
Here is a novel idea: do not require inspections on private vehicles (you don’t require an inspection on any government vehicle) and then have an enforcement team of traffic officers who enforce the law. You don’t lose Vt3,000 you could gain Vt5,000 per fault.
I would say there would be enough revenue to pay for two traffic police cars and the 4 men needed to man it and operate it.
You could also get serious about the speeders and drunks that drive on the roads outside of Port Vila.
I would imagine if you only had a speed camera in Eton village alone you could pull in Vt20,000-100,000 a day (at Vt10,000 per speeder) and enforce the speed signs of 30km/h which have been posted there since 2000.
I have mentioned in the past this problem with a funnel time of clogged vehicle inspection/registration is preventable if there was a new policy that allows for year long inspection and registration which is spread over all the months.
Even the registration office would find relief as they have all that other tax collection going on all year round as well not just a deadline of March 31st.
A major problem of having all revenue come into the government coffers at the same time is the politicians then see the fund as a cash cow and spend it and wonder why in the middle of the year there is no funds for the rest of the budget year.
I appreciate that someone was trying to help with the long lines for inspections but by putting everything into a one-size-fits-all box does not necessarily fix the problem.
I hear murmurings that if something is not done there might be a bus strike or even more, having the buses clogging the roads and then parking them on the road until someone comes up with a working solution.
Dr Huff
Eton Village
The manure is about to hit the fan. We have a government agency which is at an impasse (constipated) and does not have the ability or capacity to do the work they have taken on but another agency is seeing this an opportunity to stick it to the very people who they are supposed to be working for and whom are paying their wages.
There have been rumbling that there is not the normal revenue being generated by the payment of vehicle registrations and thus to make up for this shortfall, instead of figuring out where the impasse (constipation) is, let’s just shake the public down for more revenue in the form of charging them 25%-50% on top of the high yearly vehicle registration.

First of all is this legal? 25%? The last time I looked, and I have not heard of any new legislation and the gazetting of such, it was 10% for late registration. Where did the 25% come from? Why not 75% or 100%?
Maybe it is time for the Attorney General to get busy. They stepped in to clarify that PWD had no business asking for proof of inspection and stopped that.
They should have checked the statutes and laws and told PWD exactly what was considered for roadworthy and not what the higher ups in PWD have suddenly decided was not roadworthy (dents, surface rust, dirty exterior, dirty interior, etc).
The Road Worthiness Inspection currently being done is on a form stated to be authorized in the “Road Traffic Act of 1998 Section 39”.
However I find that Section 39 refers to Vehicle Temporarily Imported Exempt From Registration and From Tax. So is this even a legal document? If not why are they using it???
Try getting the government agencies working together. How did PWD ever expect that they would get all the vehicles inspected when they did not even start doing any inspections until after the new year.
And on top of that drivers MUST register for an inspection time and then very, very few vehicles passed the first time and all the return inspections then put the booked/registered owner on the back foot.
I do not have any pity for the Hyundi buses that are having a hard time getting inspections.
Those and many other public vehicles need to be off the roads. Public vehicles should come under an must harder inspection than private vehicles.
Here is thinking outside the box: be like some countries and some states in the USA and territories in Australia that do not have annual inspection on private vehicles.
It is not the responsibility of the government to police the private vehicle safety but they have the right to stop vehicles on the public highways and give them tickets/citations for any faults on their vehicle. Example: owners should have functioning lights, horn, etc.
If you have a light out or a fault you can be stopped and fined up to $50 per fault. The government puts the responsibility on the driver but they get the revenue when they enforce the law.
Here is a novel idea: do not require inspections on private vehicles (you don’t require an inspection on any government vehicle) and then have an enforcement team of traffic officers who enforce the law. You don’t lose Vt3,000 you could gain Vt5,000 per fault.
I would say there would be enough revenue to pay for two traffic police cars and the 4 men needed to man it and operate it.
You could also get serious about the speeders and drunks that drive on the roads outside of Port Vila.
I would imagine if you only had a speed camera in Eton village alone you could pull in Vt20,000-100,000 a day (at Vt10,000 per speeder) and enforce the speed signs of 30km/h which have been posted there since 2000.
I have mentioned in the past this problem with a funnel time of clogged vehicle inspection/registration is preventable if there was a new policy that allows for year long inspection and registration which is spread over all the months.
Even the registration office would find relief as they have all that other tax collection going on all year round as well not just a deadline of March 31st.
A major problem of having all revenue come into the government coffers at the same time is the politicians then see the fund as a cash cow and spend it and wonder why in the middle of the year there is no funds for the rest of the budget year.
I appreciate that someone was trying to help with the long lines for inspections but by putting everything into a one-size-fits-all box does not necessarily fix the problem.
I hear murmurings that if something is not done there might be a bus strike or even more, having the buses clogging the roads and then parking them on the road until someone comes up with a working solution.
Dr Huff
Eton Village
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