New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9B Transfer of personalised registration plates to another vehicle or person

• (1) Where a person who has bought or otherwise acquired personalised registration plates, or the right to receive them, wishes to transfer the plates or the right to receive them to another vehicle or person,—

  • (a) that person and the transferee (if any) shall—

    • (i) each notify the Registrar, on the appropriate form or forms approved by the Registrar, of the details of the transfer, including where appropriate the registration plates that will be displayed on each vehicle concerned; and

    • (ii) pay to the Registrar the prescribed fee or fees, if any; and

  • (b) the personalised registration plates shall be produced to the Registrar for inspection; and

  • (c) if the personalised registration plates are not to be affixed immediately to a vehicle, they shall be surrendered to the Registrar (unless they are already held by the Registrar); and

  • (d) where appropriate—

    • (i) the person transferring the plates shall apply for the issue of ordinary or other personalised registration plates for the vehicle from which the plates are to be transferred; and

    • (ii) any existing registration plates of the vehicle to which the personalised registration plates are to be affixed shall be surrendered to the Registrar.

  (2) All forms required by this section, together with the personalised registration plates being transferred and any plates required to be surrendered, shall be submitted to the Registrar at the same time.

  Section 9B: inserted, on 7 January 1989, by section 3 of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 171).