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Glossary

Damaged flag

The imported damaged flag will display as ‘Yes’ only in the case of “obvious structural damage or deterioration” of a vehicle recorded at the Bordercheck inspection. Damage that is merely cosmetic will not be recorded. The information is held against the vehicle record once the vehicle is registered on the Motor Vehicle Register. Where a vehicle has not been identified as imported damaged or a flag is subsequently removed due to further inspection, this field will not be displayed.

Date and Time of Issue of Latest Licence

The date and the time when a Licence application is processed by an Authorised Agent of Land Transport New Zealand.

Date of first Regisrtation in New Zealand

The date the vehicle was registered in New Zealand for the first time.

Date of first Registered Overseas

The date the vehicle was first registered overseas. If this information is unavailable and has not been recorded for a vehicle on the Motor Vehicle Register the message no info will be displayed. All available data will be displayed, this can be the day, month and year the vehicle was first registered overseas, only the month and year or just the year.

Date of latest COF Inspection

Date of the last recorded COF inspection for the vehicle. All COF inspections (both passed and failed) have been recorded in the vehicle register since February 1997. Before February 1997, only passed COF inspections were recorded when a vehicle was licensed.

Date of latest WOF Inspection

Date of the last recorded WOF inspection for the vehicle.

Successful WOF inspections have been recorded in the vehicle register since November 1995, at the time a vehicle is relicensed. Only the most recent WOF prior to the relicensing is normally recorded.

Since licensing is often done on an annual basis and WOF’s are often required bi-annually, this item of information does not necessarily show if the vehicle has a current WOF.

It is intended to begin recording all WOF inspections, both passed and failed, in the near future.

Date of Odometer Reading

Date when the odometer reading was recorded. Since November 1995, odometer readings have been obtained from WOF inspections. These are recorded at the time a vehicle is licensed but the odometer reading date is the date of the WOF inspection.