Zmiany w przepisach o karach pieniężnych za niepowiadomienie o zbyciu lub nabyciu pojazdu jako przykład niedopracowanej legislacji
Amendments to the provisions on financial penalties for failure to notify the disposal or acquisition of avehicle as an example of underdeveloped legislation

Summary/Abstract: On January 1, 2024, the long-awaited changes to the Road Traffic Law came into force, imposingadministrative fines on vehicle owners (former owners) for failure to notify about their purchaseor sale. The penalty for failure to notify about the purchase of a vehicle has been replaced in theabovementioned regulations with a penalty for failure to register it. The penalty rates have alsochanged, and the obligation for co-owners to bear the penalty jointly and severally has been intro-duced. The legislator has also excluded the possibility of applying general provisions on penaltiesfrom Chapter IVA of the Polish Code of Administrative Procedure, including the possibility ofwaiving the imposition of a penalty. Although some of the changes should be assessed positively,some errors were highlighted in this article.

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