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Vehicle Registration Marks Bill


 

Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Transport with the

consent of Mr Mark Hendrick, will be published separately as Bill 48 —EN.

 

Bill 48                                                                                                 

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Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

 

Bill 48                                                                                                 

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Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

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A

Bill

To

Make further provision about the retention of vehicle registration marks

pending transfer. 

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Retention of registration marks pending transfer

(1)   

For section 26(1) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22)

(retention of registration mark pending transfer) substitute—

“(1)   

The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for—

(a)   

a person in whose name a vehicle is registered under this Act, or

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(b)   

if that person so requests, another person,

   

to be granted a right of retention in respect of the registration mark for

the time being assigned to the vehicle.

(1A)   

In subsection (1), the reference to a right of retention is to a right,

exercisable on a single occasion falling within a period prescribed by

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regulations made by the Secretary of State, to have the registration

mark assigned to some other vehicle which is registered under this Act

in the name of—

(a)   

the person to whom the right is granted, or

(b)   

some other person nominated by him in accordance with

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regulations made by the Secretary of State.”

(2)   

In subsection (2) of that section—

(a)   

in paragraph (a), for “such a right (a “right of retention”)” substitute “a

right of retention”;

(b)   

in paragraph (f), for “subsection (1)” substitute “subsection (1A)”.

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(3)   

In section 62(1) of that Act (other definitions), in the definition of “right of

retention”, for “(2)(a)” substitute “(1A)”.

 
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Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Vehicle Registration Marks Act 2005.

 
 

 
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