That is not the case.
There was a new law….
The AA make it simpler reading and say the following:
Unless you've registered your vehicle as off the road (
Statutory Off Road Notification/SORN) or it's in the process of being transferred to a new keeper by DVLA, it must be insured.
- The offence of being the 'keeper of an uninsured vehicle' was introduced in the Road Safety Act (2006)
- Continuous Insurance Enforcement came into force in 2011.
- There are still around a million uninsured drivers on our roads costing you and every other honest driver an average £30 a year on your insurance.
- That £30 goes to fund payments to victims of uninsured drivers made by the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB).
- More than 2 million warning letters have been sent to drivers whose car was neither insured or SORN'd.
- There are around 6,000 prosecutions for keeping an uninsured vehicle every month.