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Spanish frontier guards seize cars not driven by person named in car's logbook
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Spanish frontier guards have been checking Gibraltar registered cars to establish if the name on the log book and the name of the driver were the same. If that was not the case, cars were being confiscated.
A person who was stopped by Civil Guards on Thursday night, and whose papers were in order, asked why this was happening.
The person was told that a new law had come into force in Spain.
The civil guard pointed at a number of Gibraltar cars in a compound and said that all those cars had been confiscated that day.
The Spanish guard further stated that this was happening because Gibraltar people are not EU nationals. Presumably he meant that Gibraltar is not part of the European customs union.
If the log book is not in the driver's name, any other form of authorisation to drive the car - such as a letter from a notary public - is NOT valid to drive the car, the person who informed us further told us.
It is being recalled that some time ago a similar problem arose at the frontier, when the name on the logbook of commercial vehicles was not the same as the driver. This was because a commercial vehicle might have a company name as owner of the vehicle, and the driver might be an employee.
That specific problem was resolved at the time. It remains to be seen what will happen now.
16-05-11
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