Commissioner for Human Rights

If at all and when can I deregister my car?

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Vehicle deregistration conditions are governed by the Article 79(1) of the Act of 20 June 1997 – Road Traffic Law (Dz. U. of 2005, No 108, item 908, as amended,), according to which, a vehicle is subject to deregistration by a competent authority given the place of the last registration of the vehicle, at the request of its owner, in the event of:

1) transfer of the vehicle to a vehicle disassembly station or a vehicle collection point, referred to in (2) or Article 24(1)(2) or Article 33(3) of the Act of 20 January 2005 on the recycling of vehicles withdrawn from service, or an equivalent document issued in another country;

2) theft of a vehicle if the owner submitted a relevant statement under penalty of perjury for false testimony;

3) export of the vehicle abroad if the vehicle has been registered abroad, or disposed of abroad;

4) destruction (scrapping) the vehicle abroad;

5) documented sustained and complete loss of the vehicle without a change in the ownership,

6) transfer of an incomplete vehicle to a vehicle disassembly station or a vehicle collection point on the basis of a certificate of acceptance of an incomplete vehicle referred to in Article 25(1) or Article 33(3) of the Act of 20 January 2005 on recycling of vehicles withdrawn from service, or of an equivalent document issued in another country.