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Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Registration of motor vehicle traders - Procedure for registration of motor vehicle traders - Registration

38: Registration may not be transferred

You could also call this:

"You can't pass on a motor vehicle trader's registration to someone else."

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You cannot transfer the registration of a motor vehicle trader. The registration cannot automatically go to someone else by law, except to the trader registered under this Act. This means the registration stays with the original trader.

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Part 3Registration of motor vehicle traders
Procedure for registration of motor vehicle traders: Registration

38Registration may not be transferred

  1. The registration of a motor vehicle trader—

  2. may not be transferred; and
    1. may not vest by operation of law in any person other than the motor vehicle trader registered under this Act.