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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-and-sale-of-registration-marks-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/193",
  "legislation_title": "The Retention and Sale of Registration Marks Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-and-sale-of-registration-marks-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Retention of Registration Marks Regulations 1993 and the Sale of Registration Marks Regulations 1995 to allow applications for retention, or assignment, of vehicle registration marks to be made on the internet and not just (as previously) by submitting written documents. Other changes are made to the provisions relating to the retention and sale of registration marks.\nParagraphs 3 and 6 of Schedule 1 extend the duration of the right of retention. In future the right will be granted for a (renewable) period of 10 years.\nParagraph 4 of Schedule 1 specifies the permissible methods of making applications to the Secretary of State.\nParagraphs 4 to 7 and 11 of Schedule 1 remove the requirements to provide the Secretary of State with specified documents relating to the relevant vehicle when applying for, altering or exercising, a right of retention. In future when a person applies for, or exercises, such a right the Secretary of State will have a discretion to demand documentary or other evidence of the existence and continuing functioning of the relevant vehicle. In addition it will become possible to assign a mark to a vehicle included in the registration records for Northern Ireland.\nParagraphs 6 to 8 of Schedule 1 remove an element of the fee payable on application for a right of retention and remove altogether the requirement to pay a fee for extending a right of retention or altering the beneficiary of the right of retention.\nParagraph 9 of Schedule 1 provides for the Secretary of State to provide a unique identification reference when he or she grants a right of retention. Along with the document reference number stated on the vehicle registration document, the unique identification reference is intended to be used as a security device in the making of subsequent electronic or telephone applications in respect of the right (see paragraph 10 of Schedule 1). Where the grantee of a right of retention obtains written confirmation of the grant from the Secretary of State and subsequently makes a postal application to exercise the right, the retention document and vehicle registration document must be submitted along with the application.\nParagraph 12 of Schedule 1 extends the Secretary of State’s power of revocation to cases where the grantee wishes to surrender the right of retention.\nParagraph 13 of Schedule 1 removes the right to a refund where the right of retention has been allowed to expire through non-use.\nParagraph 14 of Schedule 1 makes transitional provisions concerning rights of retention granted before the coming into force of these Regulations.\nSchedule 2 makes equivalent changes to the provisions relating to the sale of registration marks.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that these Regulations will have on costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Longview Road, Morriston, Swansea, SA6 7JL (telephone: 01792 783864) and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside these Regulations on the website www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/193/note",
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  "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."
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