What is a Statutory Off-Road Notification (SORN)?

Question topic: Car , Essential documents

A: A notification to tell DVSA that a vehicle doesn't have a current MOT

B: Information kept by the police about the owner of a vehicle

C: A notification to tell DVLA that a vehicle isn't being used on the road

D: Information held by insurance companies to check a vehicle is insured

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If you want to keep a vehicle untaxed and off the public road, you must make a SORN. It’s an offence not to do so. Your SORN is valid until your vehicle is taxed, sold or scrapped.

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Statutory Off-Road Notification or SORN

Annex 3 of the UK highway code states:

This is a notification to the DVLA that a motor vehicle is not being used on the road. If you are the vehicle keeper and want to keep a motor vehicle untaxed and off the public road you MUST declare SORN – it is an offence not to do so. The vehicle will remain SORN until you sell, tax or scrap it. If your vehicle is unused or off the road it MUST have either a SORN declaration or valid insurance.

Find out more about what a SORN is and when you need to make one, and here’s what a SORN looks like.