The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002

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Change of keeper: obligations of vehicle traders where registration document issued F1... on or after 24 March 1997U.K.

24.—(1) This regulation applies where a vehicle trader becomes the keeper of a vehicle in respect of which a vehicle registration document has been issued F2... .

(2) Where this regulation applies the vehicle trader shall, on or before the appropriate date F3... F4..., notify the Secretary of State as to—

(a)the transfer of the vehicle to him; and

(b)the date on which he became the keeper of the vehicle.

[F5(2A) Where the registration document has been, or may have been, lost, stolen or destroyed, notification in accordance with paragraph (2) shall be effected by an application to the Secretary of State for the issue of a new registration document [F6and, except where the registration document fee exemption applies, that application shall be] accompanied by a fee of [F7£25].]

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) the appropriate date is whichever is the earliest of—

(a)the day on which the vehicle trader first uses, or permits the use of, the vehicle on a public road otherwise than under a trade licence;

(b)the day on which he first keeps the vehicle on such a road;

(c)the day immediately following the expiration of the period of three months (“the three months period of grace”) beginning with the day after the date on which the vehicle was last kept by a person who was not a vehicle trader.

(4) Where this regulation applies and the vehicle trader transfers the vehicle to another vehicle trader before the expiration of the three months period of grace, he shall give to the new keeper any part of the registration document in his possession.

(5) Where the vehicle trader transfers the vehicle to another person in a case not falling within paragraph (4), he shall—

(a)forthwith deliver to the Secretary of State, F8... the following—

(i)the name and address of the new keeper;

(ii)the date on which the vehicle was transferred to the new keeper; [F9and]

(iii)a declaration F10... by the [F11vehicle trader] that the details given in accordance with paragraph (i) are correct to the best of his knowledge and that the details given in accordance with paragraph (ii) are correct; F10...

F12(iv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)if the registration document issued in respect of the vehicle is in his possession, deliver to the new keeper [F13that part of it which is marked as the part to be given to the new keeper] .

[F14(6) Where all parts of the registration document have been, or may have been, lost, stolen or destroyed, the new keeper shall submit an application to the Secretary of State for the issue of a new registration document [F15and, except where the registration document fee exemption applies, that application shall be] accompanied by a fee of [F7£25].

(7) Where the new keeper can produce to the Secretary of State that part of the document marked as the part which is to be given to the new keeper, the new keeper may submit an application to the Secretary of State for the issue of a new registration document F16....

[F17(7A) The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, accept a notification under paragraph (2) or an application under paragraphs (2A), (6) or (7) or the information and declaration under paragraph (5)(a) made or given orally by telephone or by electronic means and in any other case—

(a)a notification under paragraph (2) must be made on that part of the registration document which relates to a change of keeper;

(b)the information and declaration under paragraph (5)(a) must be given on the part of the registration document which relates to a change of keeper or otherwise in writing;

(c)an application under paragraph (7) must be accompanied by that part of the registration document which is marked as the part to be given to the new keeper.]

[F18(8) On receiving notification of a change in keeper in accordance with paragraphs (2), (2A), (5), (6) or (7), the Secretary of State must—

(a)record the change in the register; and

(b)subject to [F19regulations 15 and 15A] and paragraph (9), issue to the new registered keeper a new registration document.

(9) Where the registered keeper is the keeper of a fleet, a new registration document must be issued only if that keeper asks for it to be issued.

(10) A new registration document issued in accordance with paragraph (9) must be sent to the address of the registered keeper unless that keeper has specified another address in the request in which case it may be sent to that other address.]]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in reg. 24 heading omitted (9.12.2014) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2676), regs. 1(3), 4(2)

F2Words in reg. 24(1) revoked (1.7.2005) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3073), regs. 1(1)(e), 8(b)

F3Words in reg. 24(2) omitted (9.12.2014) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2676), regs. 1(3), 4(3)

F4Words in reg. 24(2) omitted (1.3.2004) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/238), regs. 1, 9(a)

F5Reg. 24(2A) added (1.3.2004) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/238), regs. 1, 9(b)

F6Words in reg. 24(2A) inserted (16.8.2004) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1773), regs. 1, 10(2)

F7Word in reg. 24(2A)(6) substituted (1.5.2007) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1018), regs. 1, 4

F8Words in reg. 24(5)(a) omitted (9.12.2014) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2676), regs. 1(3), 4(4)(a)

F9Word in reg. 24(5)(a)(ii) added (9.12.2014) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2676), regs. 1(3), 4(4)(b)

F10Words in reg. 24(5)(a)(iii) omitted (9.12.2014) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2676), regs. 1(3), 4(4)(c)

F11Words in reg. 24(5)(a)(iii) substituted (1.10.2003) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2154), regs. 1, 3(3)