{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trailer-registration-regulations-2018/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trailer-registration-regulations-2018/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111173046",
  "legislation_title": "The Trailer Registration Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trailer-registration-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Accuracy of the register and information",
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State has a reasonable belief that any information recorded in the register or any information, notification or application provided, given or made to the Secretary of State in pursuance of regulation 8(2), 9(1), 9(3), 10(1) or 10(4) is inaccurate or incomplete, the Secretary of State may—\n(a) take action to determine its accuracy or completeness, including conducting an inspection of the trailer under regulation 13 or requesting documentation or information from the registered keeper or the person who has made the application or notification;\n(b) refuse to record any provided particulars in the register;\n(c) require the registered keeper to destroy, or surrender to the Secretary of State, any registration documents;\n(d) refuse to issue a registration document, including a replacement or renewed registration document; or\n(e) withdraw a registration mark assigned to the trailer by the Secretary of State under regulation 15.\n(2) The registered keeper must notify the Secretary of State if any of the particulars recorded in the register or shown on a registration document are inaccurate.\n(3) A notification made under paragraph (2) must include the information necessary to correct any inaccuracies.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (1), and following receipt of a notification under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State must—\n(a) record any amended particulars in the register as soon as practicable; and\n(b) issue a replacement registration document as soon as practicable if any of the amended particulars are shown on the registration document.\n(5) Following the issuing of a replacement registration document in accordance with paragraph (4)(b)—\n(a) the Secretary of State must send the replacement registration document to the address of the registered keeper; and\n(b) the registered keeper must destroy, or surrender to the Secretary of State, any other registration document for the same trailer if required to do so by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111173046/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:56.814114+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}