Vehicles Crime (Registration of Registration Plate Suppliers) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2002/2977 |
| Year | 2002 |
2002 No. 2977
ROAD TRAFFIC, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Vehicles Crime (Registration of Registration Plate Suppliers) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002
Made 2nd December 2002
Laid before Parliament 4th December 2002
Coming into force 1st January 2003
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17(3), 18(2), 19(1)(a), 24(1) and (3), 25(1) and (2) and 41(2) of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 20011and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Vehicles Crime (Registration of Registration Plate Suppliers) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001;
“company” means a body corporate; and
any reference to a document described by the letter V and a number is a reference to a document issued by the Secretary of State bearing that letter and number.
Exempted activity
3. The activity of selling a vehicle which is fitted with registration plates where the seller is a dealer in vehicles and has arranged the first registration in the United Kingdom of the vehicle on behalf of the intending purchaser, is not an activity which consists in selling registration plates.
Prescribed particulars of register
4. The register of persons carrying on business as registration plate suppliers established and maintained by the Secretary of State under section 18(1) of the Act shall contain the following particulars as respects each registered person’s entry—
(a) in the case of a sole trader—
(i) the full name and usual residential address of the trader;
(ii) any other name under which he trades and the address of any premises where he carries on the business as a registration plate supplier;
(b) in the case of a company—
(i) its name and number under which it is registered, and
(ii) the address of its principal place of business and the address of any other premises where it carries on the business of registration plate supplier;
(c) in the case of a partnership—
(i) the name of the firm, and
(ii) the address of its principal place of business and the address of any other premises where it carries on the business of registration plate supplier;
(d) a telephone number for the registered person;
(e) the date of registration and of any subsequent suspension of registration;
(f) details of any conviction for an offence under Part 2 of the Act where the date of that conviction is less than five years, or in the case of a person who was under eighteen years of age at the date of his conviction, 30 months, before the date on which the register is being maintained;
(g) the identity number allotted by the Secretary of State on registration of the registered supplier.
Requirements for applications for registration
5. An application for registration under section 19 of the Act shall—
(a) contain the information which an entry in the register in respect of the applicant is required to contain by virtue of paragraphs (a) to (d) of regulation 4, and
(b) be accompanied by a fee of £40 in respect of each premises to be entered in the register as the principal place of business or one at which the business of supplying registration plates is or is to be carried on.
Information on sale of registration plates
6.—(1) Before selling a registration plate, a person registered under the Act shall, subject to paragraph (5), obtain from his prospective purchaser, before the completion of the sale, the information described in paragraph (2).
(2) The information is—
(a)
(a) where the purchaser is an individual, his name and usual residential address,
(b)
(b) where the purchaser is a company, its registered name and principal place of business, or in the case of a partnership, the name of the firm and its principal place of business,
(c)
(c) where an individual acts for the purchaser, his name and usual residential address,
(d)
(d) the registration mark to be shown on the plate,
(e)
(e) in the case of a registration plate being fitted to a vehicle by a person carrying on the business of a vehicle body repairer at the request of an insurance company, the name of that company and the number of the insurance policy in question,
(f)
(f) the connection of the purchaser, or of the person for whom he is acting, with the registration mark or the vehicle on which the registration plate is intended to be affixed.
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