New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9D Voluntary or required surrender of registration plates

• (1) A person may at any time surrender the personalised registration plates of any vehicle owned by that person and, on payment of the fee for the issue of ordinary registration plates, will be entitled to receive ordinary registration plates for the vehicle.

  (2) A person to whom any personalised registration plates for a vehicle are delivered shall surrender any existing registration plates for that vehicle to the Registrar.

  (3) The Registrar may require the surrender of any personalised registration plate—

  • (a) that the Registrar is satisfied is not affixed to any vehicle, or is affixed to a vehicle other than the vehicle to which it may lawfully be affixed; or

  • (b) in respect of which the Registrar has received any complaint and which the Registrar considers likely to be offensive to any person.

  (4) Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 who fails to surrender any registration plate when required to do so by this section or by the Registrar acting under this section.

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