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Land Transport Act 1998

Motor vehicle registration and licensing - Registration plates

259: Contract to dispose of rights to personalised plates

You could also call this:

“Rules for selling special number plates”

The Registrar, after talking with the Minister, can make a deal with someone to sell the right to use special letters or numbers on personalised number plates. This deal doesn’t limit how many other deals can be made at the same time for different letters or numbers.

If there was already a deal like this before this law came into effect, it’s treated as if it was made under this new law. Either side can end the deal by giving fair warning to the other side, even if the deal says something different.

If there’s no deal in place for certain letters or numbers, the Registrar is the one who can sell the right to use them on personalised plates.

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Part 17 Motor vehicle registration and licensing
Registration plates

259Contract to dispose of rights to personalised plates

  1. The Registrar may, after consulting with the Minister, enter into a contract to authorise a person to sell or otherwise dispose of the exclusive right to 1 or more letters or numbers, or a combination of both, allocated in accordance with regulations made under this Part for use on personalised plates.

  2. Nothing in subsection (1) limits the number of contracts that may be in force under this section at any given time (whether in respect of the same or different letters or numbers or combinations of both).

  3. A contract that was entered into under section 9 of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986 and is in force immediately before commencement of this section is deemed to have been entered into under and in accordance with this section.

  4. A contract entered into (or deemed to have been entered into) under this section may be terminated by either party on giving reasonable notice to the other party, despite anything to the contrary in the contract or elsewhere.

  5. If no contract is in force under this section in respect of particular letters or numbers or combinations of both, the Registrar is the person entitled to sell or dispose of the exclusive right to those letters or numbers or combinations of both for use on personalised plates.

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  • Section 259: inserted, on , by section 32(11) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).