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UK number plate news: May 2025

23 May 2025

In May's UK number plate news: Taxi plates cloned; plates for bicycles; comedian's plates go to auction and why you should count splattered bugs on your plates.

Yiannimize broke our website

02 May 2025

A viral video about number plates sent so much traffic through to Regtransfers that our servers struggled to cope!

DVLA bans hundreds more 2025 number plates

25 April 2025

DVLA has revealed hundreds of number plates that will be withheld from issue in the forthcoming 75 registration series.

UK number plate news: March 2025

31 March 2025

In March's UK number plate news: DVLA profits; more plate cloning woes, and a fuss over "racist" plates … and postcodes!

Motoring news around the world: March 2025

29 March 2025

A snapshot of interesting and amusing stories from the world of cars and driving. Headaches for Tesla, Singapore shuns luxury cars and French star's car sells for big money.

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The role of DVLA

Car registrations and number plates, including personalised number plates, in the UK, are the responsibility of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, usually known as the DVLA. It issues new registrations twice a year and also maintains the central database that records details of all vehicles licensed to drive on UK roads, along with their keeper and registration information.

Regtransfers works closely with DVLA to complete registration transfers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Regtransfers is a DVLA-registered supplier of personalised number plates and is listed on the DVLA Personalised Registrations website. All number plates supplied by Regtransfers comply with DVLA's prescribed standards and regulations.

DVLA administers all UK registration transfers and issues updated registration documents when the registration number of a car is changed, or when a registration is removed from a vehicle and placed on a retention document in accordance with the DVLA Retention Scheme.

DVLA is a registered trade mark of the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency. Regtransfers is not affiliated to the DVLA or DVLA Personalised Registrations. Regtransfers is a recognised reseller of DVLA registrations.

Number plate regulations

When a car is on the road, it is an offence to display number plates bearing any number other than the vehicle's officially recorded registration number. If you purchase a private registration, learn how to transfer private plates before displaying the new number.

All registration number plates displayed on UK vehicles must comply with the official number plate regulations. DVLA oversees enforcement of number plates display regulations and maintains a register of approved manufacturers and retailers of vehicle number plates.

Regtransfers is not part of, and is not formally affiliated with DVLA.