Regulation 24 Change of keeper: obligations of vehicle traders where registration document issued ... on or after 24 March 1997F19

This regulation applies where a vehicle trader becomes the keeper of a vehicle in respect of which a vehicle registration document has been issued F1... .

Where this regulation applies the vehicle trader shall, on or before the appropriate date F2... F3..., notify the Secretary of State as to—

Where the registration document has been, or may have been, lost, stolen or destroyed, notification in accordance with paragraph (2) shall be effected by an application to the Secretary of State for the issue of a new registration document F5and, except where the registration document fee exemption applies, that application shall be accompanied by a fee of F6£25.

For the purposes of paragraph (2) the appropriate date is whichever is the earliest of—

Where this regulation applies and the vehicle trader transfers the vehicle to another vehicle trader before the expiration of the three months period of grace, he shall give to the new keeper any part of the registration document in his possession.

Where the vehicle trader transfers the vehicle to another person in a case not falling within paragraph (4), he shall—

Where all parts of the registration document have been, or may have been, lost, stolen or destroyed, the new keeper shall submit an application to the Secretary of State for the issue of a new registration document F14and, except where the registration document fee exemption applies, that application shall be accompanied by a fee of £25.

Where the new keeper can produce to the Secretary of State that part of the document marked as the part which is to be given to the new keeper, the new keeper may submit an application to the Secretary of State for the issue of a new registration document F15....

The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, accept a notification under paragraph (2) or an application under paragraphs (2A), (6) or (7) or the information and declaration under paragraph (5)(a) made or given orally by telephone or by electronic means and in any other case—

On receiving notification of a change in keeper in accordance with paragraphs (2), (2A), (5), (6) or (7), the Secretary of State must—

Where the registered keeper is the keeper of a fleet, a new registration document must be issued only if that keeper asks for it to be issued.

A new registration document issued in accordance with paragraph (9) must be sent to the address of the registered keeper unless that keeper has specified another address in the request in which case it may be sent to that other address.