Baskerville hounds the DVLA

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Another very important point to bear in mind is that if you buy a registration number on a Retention Certificate, either through a dealer or other third party, you are only buying the rights to assign that number to your vehicle. The Retention Certificate will be made out in the seller, or the owner of the last vehicle it was on - n ot Regtransfers. You are, what is called, the ' nominee'. That means that the seller will allow you to use the number instead and he will give up his rights to it once you assign it to a vehicle, but you must do it before the certificate expires.

As the nominee you can not renew the Certificate, it would be down to the seller to renew it for another year. Although it is possible to do it, it could cause all sorts of problems if anything goes wrong. Therefore you should aim to transfer the number onto a vehicle that you own as soon as possible in order: to avoid lasing the number if something goes wrong or the certificate is not renewed in time. Being very interested in how all this works I decided to take all the paperwork and a photocopy of the tax disc to my local DVLA office in Wimbledon.

I was absolutely amazed how quickly and easily the transfer was done. I don't think I was in the office for more than five minutes - I didn' t even have to queue!. I went straight up to the counter, the lady took all of the paperwork, looked at it, bashed a few buttons on her computer and gave me a new tax disc showing 5 FBJ . Gave me a slip of paper so that I could get some new number plates made up. They also put a rubber stamp on my original MOT test Certificate and wrote the new registration number on it as well and gave that back to me. The lady then said that I would get my new log- book in the post in a few weeks. That was it. I could not believe it was so easy. I could now go home and fit the new number plates to my car.

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