{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-registration-marks-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-registration-marks-regulations-1992/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/510",
  "legislation_title": "The Retention of Registration Marks Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-registration-marks-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rights of retention",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, a person in whose name a vehicle is registered may be granted by the Secretary of State a right, exercisable on a single occasion falling within the period mentioned in paragraph (2), to have the registration mark for the time being assigned to the vehicle assigned to some other vehicle, being a vehicle registered—\n(a) in that person’s name; or\n(b) in the name of some other person nominated by him in the application for the grant of the right.\n(2) The period referred to in paragraph (1) is—\n(a) within one year from the date of the grant of the right; or\n(b) within such further period if the Secretary of State thinks fit in the circumstances of any particular case.\n(3) This regulation applies only to vehicles which are recorded as being registered vehicles in the G.B. records.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2976",
      "affecting_title": "The Retention of Registration Marks (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/510/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:27:25.612398+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."
}