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Land Transport Act 1998

Motor vehicle registration and licensing - Registration plates

260: Acquisition and disposal of personalised plates

You could also call this:

"Buying, Selling, and Swapping Personalised Car Plates"

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You can buy personalised plates or the right to have them. You can apply to the person in charge, as stated in section 259, to buy this right or to change your existing plates to personalised ones. You can also buy the right to have personalised plates from someone else. You can sell or give away your personalised plates to someone else. You can also move them to a different vehicle you own, or swap them for ordinary plates. You must follow the rules when buying, selling, or getting rid of personalised plates. Personalised plates must be given out according to the rules. You must follow the rules when getting rid of or transferring personalised plates.

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Part 17Motor vehicle registration and licensing
Registration plates

260Acquisition and disposal of personalised plates

  1. A person who wishes to purchase or otherwise acquire personalised plates, or the exclusive right specified in section 259, may—

  2. apply to the authorised person referred to in section 259—
    1. to purchase the exclusive right specified in section 259; or
      1. to convert the existing registration plates of a motor vehicle to personalised plates bearing the same combination of letters and numbers as the existing plates; or
      2. purchase that exclusive right on the open market, whether or not the personalised plates have been manufactured.

        1. A person who purchases or otherwise acquires personalised plates, or the exclusive right specified in section 259, may—

        2. sell or otherwise dispose of them to any other person; or
          1. transfer them between motor vehicles owned by that person; or
            1. surrender them for ordinary plates.

              1. Despite anything in subsections (1) and (2), a person transferring, selling, disposing of, acquiring, or surrendering personalised plates must transfer, sell, dispose of, acquire, or surrender the plates in accordance with any regulations made under this Part.

              2. Personalised plates must be issued in accordance with any regulations made under this Part.

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              Notes
              • Section 260: inserted, on , by section 32(11) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).