Amendment of Regulations
5.—(1) Regulation 13 (issue of replacement registration document) is amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph (2), substitute—
“(2) Any application under paragraph (1) may, if the Secretary of State thinks fit, be made orally by telephone or by electronic means and in any other case, except where the registration document is lost, stolen or destroyed, must be accompanied by the registration document.”
(3) In paragraph (3), after the words “subject to regulation 15” insert “and paragraph (4)”.
(4) For paragraph (4), substitute—
“(4) 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.
(5) A new registration document issued in accordance with paragraph (4) 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.”