This is has been a trending subject in Australia.
When I was visiting in New South Wales, there were proposals requiring a permit to repair vehicles. Any vehicles.
There was also a proposal to ban the sale of automotive parts to anyone who did not have a permit.
This is the administrative state (Nanny state) gone nuts.
No longer a citizen with rights, you become a subject only allowed to do what is permited. All else becomes forbidden.
It is part of the problem of the urbanization of populations. They become accustomed to live highly regulated lives, dependent on the government to provide most things and regulating most activity.
I believe that most people in NSW, or at least near Sydney, wouldn’t know how to fix their own cars in any case. You’d have to go to Queensland to find that knowledge.
I am building a custom truck for purposes of environmental restoration; i.e., improving road access to deal with catastrophic fuel loads and improving firefighter access, improving drainage associated therewith, and facilitating landowner improvements to public road frontage to allow for safer emergency vehicle access and evacuation.
There is no new truck that can do what this one will do I can buy for less than $150,000.
Placing those potential liabilities on government for inhibiting those capabilities might just slow them down.