Touring caravans imported from overseas are not automatically registered with CRiS. However, if you are the keeper of such a caravan and wish to register with CRiS, please contact us to arrange an Imported Caravan Registration Check and, if successful, an Imported Caravan Registration.
Please note that the expression “Keeper” does NOT mean the legal owner. The Keeper is a person who is responsible for the caravan, in terms of official communications from the police and other Regulatory Authorities, and who has registered the caravan in question with CRIS. For example, if the caravan is financed under a hire purchase arrangement, the legal owner is the finance company, but the Keeper is the person taking out the finance and registering with CRIS as the Keeper. In most cases the owner will also be the keeper, for example where the caravan is owned outright without finance and is both personally used and under the exclusive control of the person registering the caravan with us. We do not and cannot register ownership of caravans.
What does an Imported Caravan Check cover?
Confirms the caravan details provided match those held by an existing identifiable manufacturer
Identifies any security alerts registered with the UK police and Interpol at the time of our search
Checks if it has outstanding finance with leading finance houses specialising in caravan finance*
Checks if it has been written off by insurers at the time of our search
Checks current CRiS records currently held against the caravan
Confirms your personal details for identification purposes.
Primarily, the checks help us to protect you by ensuring, as far as we reasonably can, based on the information we received and ascertained by us, that the caravan is not reported as stolen, there is no finance is registered against it, it has not been restored after being written off by insurers, it can be matched to the relevant existing, or an identifiable successor, manufacturer.
Disclaimer:
Our searches are limited to those noted above and also limited in extent to the various institutional sources in terms of finance houses and insurance companies with whom we have arrangements and from which we are able to source relevant information (“institutional information”). Note that this institutional information will be that retrieved at the time of our search only.
We will not be held liable for any changes following such time because such change will be made by the institutions or thirds parties which is outside of our control.
We will not be held liable if following registration of your caravan we discover incorrect, false, misleading or fraudulent information, including institutional information, was given to us in the course of our searches on which we innocently relied in dealing with the registration. In this circumstance, we reserve the absolute right to remove the registration from our database or, alternatively, we may retain it, but subject to a “red flag” alerting anyone carrying out a CRiS -check against your caravan about the nature and issues discovered subsequent to the registration.
On Completion of the process
On successful completion of an Imported Caravan Check we will confirm if you can register the caravan, and yourself as the keeper, with CRiS. Your caravan retains its’ original identity and if it does not have a unique 17 digit VIN CRiS will issue one.
What does an Imported Caravan Registration include?
An anti-counterfeit registration document
A keep safe card containing key caravan information
A unique VIN Chip kit – the industry standard in touring caravan identification and theft deterrent
Together CRiS Registration and VIN Chip help protect what’s precious to you. The VIN number is the first thing the police look for to identify a touring caravan. The introduction of VIN Chip supports a fast and reliable process of confirmation, as well as being a great deterrent to would be thieves.
The total cost for a pre-registration check and registration combined is £72.99.
In the unlikely event that, as a result of the pre-registration check, we are unable to register your caravan we will refund the registration fee of £53.00.
To Check and Register call 0203 282 1000