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Land Transport Act 1998

Motor vehicle registration and licensing - Registration plates

262: Application for trade plates

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“How to ask for special car plates for businesses”

If you want to get trade plates, you can ask the Registrar for them if you are allowed to have them. You need to follow the rules when you ask for trade plates. You must pay a fee and an accident insurance levy when you apply. The Registrar will give you the trade plates, and you must use them following the rules. The government has made special rules about how to ask for trade plates and how to use them.

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Part 17 Motor vehicle registration and licensing
Registration plates

262Application for trade plates

  1. A person who is, or who is within a class of persons, eligible to receive trade plates may apply to the Registrar for trade plates.

  2. An application must be—

  3. made in accordance with any regulations made under this Part; and
    1. accompanied by—
      1. the prescribed fee; and
        1. the accident insurance levy.

        2. Trade plates must be issued and used in accordance with any regulations made under this Part.

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        • Section 262: inserted, on , by section 32(12) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).