I cant understand people removing compliance plates from cars to truthfully protect the cars identity.
If a person genuinely believes their compliance plate is worth more than their car, and removes it to protect both the car and the plate, they have done more damage than would have been done by someone actually stealing the plate! At least the theft would have been documentable.
I can only imagine the only way this sort of action would be legally possible would be at the very least 1. prior written understanding of the intended action to remove the plate, and the reasons for it by the RTA in that state. 2. presence of an official from the RTA (or a lawyer with a digi cam and valid practicing certificate) to record all numbers and the process as it occurred. 3. restitution of the plate to the vehicle afterward.
It is vaugely possible that for very special vehicles the plates could be held elsewhere, but not if the car is gonna be registered to legally drive on the road.
Unnecesarily removing the compliance plate from an X series GT Falcon means it is no longer legally driveable on the road in any honest sense at least. Tampering with compliance plates is illegal - not to be removed!!
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