Registration retention

The vehicle’s original registration number is usually reassigned to it automatically when you take off a private number. If your application is successful you’ll be sent a V7retention document. Application form to keep a vehicle registration number (personalised number plate) and put it on another vehicle. There are currently delays with paper applications, so please use our online. Do not apply earlier than this or your application.

The Retention Document is valid for years but can be renewed when it is due to expire. The articles below explain the retention regulations. To keep a private registration plate that’s on a car you want to get rid of, you need to apply to keep the number plate. The registration held on retention must be assigned to a suitable vehicle before the expiry date on the V7( Retention Document). As the Grantee (person who owns the rights to the registration number shown at the top left of the V778), if you are not ready to assign, the retention document may be extended.

You can keep the original registration number and plates - they’ll be reassigned to the vehicle when you take off the private number. Overview You can buy a private (personalised) registration for your vehicle’s number plates from DVLA or from a private dealer. If you have the right to a private number that is not currently being. Your official DVLA V7retention certificate will arrive through the post within weeks – and the car that the plate has been transferred from will be issued with a new registration mark.

At this stage, you can now safely sell or scrap that car, without any fear that you’ll lose your cherished number plate. Further guidance on the retention of documents can be found in Section of our resource on data protection legislation. Section ‘Document retention ’ and Section ‘Data storage’ also contain further advice on the storage and retention of documents and on maintaining your document retention policy, including what it should contain. It is possible to retain a personalised vehicle registration number in the vehicle owner’s own name or in somebody else’s name. An online facility is now available to retain your registration number.

At the moment this online retention is limited to keeping the personalised number in the name of the Registered Keeper of the vehicle. The name and address cannot be changed. The registration year in Northern Ireland runs from June to May annually therefore to retain registration you will be required to complete the retention process (including paying registration fees) on June every year after first registration. Search and buy from millions of personalised number plates direct from the DVLA, including auction plates and cherished plates.

The same as retaining a plate online, you’ll also need to make sure that the following official conditions are met: You must be, or be in the process of becoming, the registered keeper of the vehicle that the number plate is coming off The vehicle must be taxed or have a Statutory Off Road. The DVLA will decide if they need to inspect your car. So, currently, the retention certificate will be valid for years and you can renew it completely free of charge once it has expired.

The certificates are also now valid for years, so you no longer have to re-apply every year to retain your number plate! How Much Does it Cost? Personalised registrations online services. Fill in the V7Retention Document Complete section Assigning this vehicle registration number. This allows you to keep it for.

The information you need will be on your V5C Registration Document for the vehicle the private number plate is going on. In order for you to retain your registration number you need to place the registration on retention. Retention certificates (V778) are issued by the DVLA when a registration number is transferred from a vehicle pending future assignment to another vehicle. The answer is as long as is necessary.

These and other purchase types are most often represented by a V7Retention Document. Stated concisely, V7Retention Documents are the DVLA forms used to maintain ownership of previously issued number plates without attaching them to vehicles. Requisitions to persons liable to register who have failed to do so.

Certificates of registration of births and still-births. Forms of report of death to coroner by registrar. The usual reason is because the car is going to be sold and you don’t want lose the rights to display your personalised plate. All registered optometrists and dispensing opticians have to renew their registration with us each year. At the end of January we will send all individual registrants and bodies corporate a notification of retention.

All applications for retention should be submitted by the annual deadline of March. To do this, send your V7filling in section and signing section to DVLA. Can you renew a private. The new vehicle registration certificate (V5C) showing the replacement registration number and the retention certificate for your private plate will be sent out to you by post. Registrations can be stored on a certificate, allowing the vehicle keeper to sell on the vehicle.

There will no longer be a replacement MOT certificate issued as the original will remain valid. You can use the V7to transfer your private number plate from retention to another car at some point in the future. Number plate Retention Document V778.

You can retain the registration number in your name or nominate someone else.