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Car Number Plates/Personalised Registrations:

Only the vehicle keeper do you have entitlement to apply to transfer or retain its number plate. You should also be aware that not all vehicles are eligible to participate in the transfer and retention of registration numbers and not all numbers are transferable.

Vehicles must be currently licensed, subject to annual testing (MOT) and available for inspection. However, applications involving untaxed donor vehicles will still be considered if:

The tax disc for the donor vehicle expired no more than six months prior to the date of the application.
The donor vehicle is not old enough to be tested, ie less than three years old for cars.
In both the above circumstances, all other requirements of the number transfer facility must be met in order for applications to be considered. Recipient vehicles must be currently taxed in order to participate in the number transfer arrangements.

To transfer a personalised number The transfer scheme enables a registration number to be moved directly from one vehicle to another. Only the registered keeper of a vehicle is entitled to apply to transfer its registration number. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) local office will action this.

Once the transfer has been sent and everything is in order, the donor vehicle (the vehicle giving up the cherished number) will be allocated a replacement age-related registration number, the tax disc(s) will be replaced and the MOT certificate(s) (where appropriate) will be amended to show the replacement registration number.

You will then be instructed to replace the number plates on the vehicles and to return any old tax disc(s) for cancellation. The papers will be sent to DVLA, Swansea for the records to be amended and replacement V5C registration certificates will normally follow within 4 weeks of receiving your confirmation letter from the Local Office. However, if a V62 was used to support your application it could take up to 8 weeks.

More and more vehicle keepers are looking to personalise their vehicles by choosing "cherished" or "special" registration number for them. They may opt for registration numbers which contain their initials or even their date of birth. Once on their vehicle they usually want to move that number on when they change their vehicles.

If you already have a "cherished" number on your vehicle you can transfer this to your next car or retain for a limited time period unregistered.