Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

House of Commons

Session 2006 - 07
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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 Richard Ottaway, will be published separately as Bill 26 —EN.

Bill 26
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Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

Bill 26
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Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

Contents
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Retention of registration marks pending transfer
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Short title

Bill 26
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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 2007.

Vehicle Registration Marks Bill

A
Bill
To Make further provision about the retention of vehicle registration marks
pending transfer.

Presented by Richard Ottaway

supported by

Mr Greg Knight, Mr John Maples,

Derek Wyatt, Mr Greg Pope,

Mr Phil Willis, Mr Malcolm Moss

and Mr Nigel Evans.

Ordered, by The House of Commons,

to be Printed, 13th December 2006.

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