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Amendments VIRM: Entry certification List of changes

VIRM: Entry certification update – effective 1 June 2018

List of changes

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Section	Change description
Inspection and certification
1-1 Registering a vehicle for the first time in New Zealand	Added items to ‘a used vehicle manufactured for the USA market’ regarding American vehicles to clarify that older Chevrolet/GMC pickup trucks with the model names “C20/K20” or “C30/K30” (where C=2WD and K=4WD) are almost always heavy vehicles and if one is presented with paperwork showing that it is light, it should be referred to the Transport Agency for further review. Changed in notes to ‘a used vehicle manufactured for the USA market’ ‘should’ be referred to Transport Agency to ‘must’ be referred to Transport Agency Added to note below Table 1-1-4 that UD trucks began using 17 character ISO VINs for their Japanese domestic market vehicles in 2015)
3-4 Threshold for requiring specialist repair certification	Link to the new Technical bulletin 44 added
8-2 Inspection specifications	Information on how to request content is added to the page added.
Technical bulletins
25 Immigrants vehicles	Electronic stability control provisions do not apply to immigrants’ vehicles (Note: Application for identification of an immigrant’s vehicle form also updated)
28 Exhaust emissions standards compliance	Diesel vehicles registered in Singapore on or after 1 October 2006 will meet the Euro 4 exhaust emission standard
39 Identifying class MB, MD1 or MD2 based on seats on Japanese deregistration certificates	Updated to also include moving the vehicle class from MD1 to MD2
43 Rust prevention or under-sealing on late model cars from the UK	New bulletin

VIRM: Entry certification