insurance

[Sam Wood]

do you have to be the registered keeper of a moped to insure it

[Toureman]

No.

[New Judge]

But you will be expected to have a financial interest in it. (In general, you cannot insure something which you do not own).

[flip_flop]

It is an insurable interest - a leased car will be neither owned or registered to the user but the user can still insure it because his insurable interest is that he is, for want of a better expression, renting the vehicle.

[Cockney_si]

You could if it was a car so best to check with an insurance company.

[New Judge]

Yes, flip-flop, but you cannot insure a hire car against, say, theft, and expect to be paid out in the evnt of it being stolen. The hire company may insist that you pay for any such insurance, but you will be simply indemnifying them against their potential losses, not your own.

[flip_flop]

Oh absolutely - but that wasn't the question.