{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-registration-marks-regulations-1993/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-registration-marks-regulations-1993/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/987",
  "legislation_title": "The Retention of Registration Marks Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-registration-marks-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rights of retention",
  "text": "Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, a person in whose name a vehicle which is recorded as being a registered vehicle in the G.B.records may be granted by the Secretary of State a right to have the registration mark for the time being assigned to that vehicle assigned to some other 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/193",
      "affecting_title": "The Retention and Sale of Registration Marks Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2976",
      "affecting_title": "The Retention of Registration Marks (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2850",
      "affecting_title": "The Retention of Registration Marks (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/987/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:58:39.431467+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."
}