Getting keeper details from DVLA?
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Does anyone have a definitive list of what will defeat GDPR regs at Swansea and get them to send you keeper details?
A relative's solicitor has sent me copy of a DVLA letter showing that I do not currently have my name on a V5C for a car which I inherited. The application request has his name on the letter. It is SORN'd and of course this caveat applies:
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I am wondering what he told them to allow the release the data which still shows the previous owner who was my late aunt?
There is a load of stuff on the response letter about hefty fines for abusing the system.
A relative's solicitor has sent me copy of a DVLA letter showing that I do not currently have my name on a V5C for a car which I inherited. The application request has his name on the letter. It is SORN'd and of course this caveat applies:
|https://thumbsnap.com/zyR1C9jq[/url]I am wondering what he told them to allow the release the data which still shows the previous owner who was my late aunt?
There is a load of stuff on the response letter about hefty fines for abusing the system.
Edited by Willhire89 on Thursday 9th June 19:05
Edited by Willhire89 on Thursday 9th June 19:07
The application was made by the relative in their own name and they have passed it on to the solicitor. Estate was settled three years back.
Their beef is I'm not actively using it and that is seemingly imperative otherwise I should hand it to them instead - it has nominal value (MK3 MR2)
Their beef is I'm not actively using it and that is seemingly imperative otherwise I should hand it to them instead - it has nominal value (MK3 MR2)
This is the form you normally use for obtaining such details:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/governmen...
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/governmen...
Well the V5C isn't proof of ownership as stated on the front in big letters.
Do you have documentation from the estate showing you own the vehicle? If so then the other party has no claim to the car but you should get the registration put in your name.
As for the you aren't using so give it to me sounds like someone else wanted it but didn't get it and is now trying to get it on the basis of you aren't using it.
You could sell it to them if you felt like it or tell them to jog on.
It also sounds like the relative may not have a legit basis for obtaining the info either.
Do you have documentation from the estate showing you own the vehicle? If so then the other party has no claim to the car but you should get the registration put in your name.
As for the you aren't using so give it to me sounds like someone else wanted it but didn't get it and is now trying to get it on the basis of you aren't using it.
You could sell it to them if you felt like it or tell them to jog on.
It also sounds like the relative may not have a legit basis for obtaining the info either.
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 9th June 20:49
GPDR isn't relevant here, as it only applies to living individuals, and they haven't released the personal data of any living individual.
Presumably your relative has made a case that they have some legal entitlement to the car and/or part of the estate, and have approached DVLA on the basis that they wish to establish whether the car is part of the estate. In that scenario (and I don't know the technicalities), they cannot be judge and jury and determine whether the case has any basis and need to provide information so that the relevant legal processes can test this out.
Presumably your relative has made a case that they have some legal entitlement to the car and/or part of the estate, and have approached DVLA on the basis that they wish to establish whether the car is part of the estate. In that scenario (and I don't know the technicalities), they cannot be judge and jury and determine whether the case has any basis and need to provide information so that the relevant legal processes can test this out.
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