# The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002, Regulation 23: Change of keeper: obligations of registered keeper where vehicle registration document issued ... on or after 24th March 1997 and the new keeper a vehicle trader

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Subject to regulation 24, this regulation applies where—
(a) there is a change in the keeper of a vehicle;
(b) the person disposing of the vehicle is the registered keeper;
(c) a vehicle registration document has been issued in respect of the vehicle ...; and
(d) the new keeper is a vehicle trader.
(2) The registered keeper, or, a vehicle trader by or to whom the vehicle is sold or disposed of, acting on the registered keeper’s behalf, must forthwith notify the Secretary of State... of the following—
(a) the name and address of the vehicle trader;
(b) the date on which the vehicle was transferred to the vehicle trader; and
(c) a declaration ... by the registered keeper that he transferred the vehicle to the vehicle trader on the date specified in accordance with sub-paragraph (b); ...
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2A) The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, accept a notification and declaration under paragraph (2) made orally by telephone or by electronic means and in any other case it must be made on that part of the registration document which relates to the transfer to a vehicle trader, or otherwise in writing.
(3) If the registration document issued in respect of the vehicle is in his possession, the registered keeper shall deliver to the vehicle trader those parts of it not required to be sent to the Secretary of State under paragraph (2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2742/regulation/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-23
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.