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American state-issued registration certificate from 1917. A vehicle registration certificate is an official document providing proof of registration of a vehicle. It is used primarily by governments as a means of ensuring that all road vehicles are on the national vehicle register, but is also used as a form of law enforcement and to facilitate change of ownership when buying and selling a ...
The V5 document records who the Registered Keeper of the vehicle is; it does not establish legal ownership of the vehicle. These documents used to be blue on the front. However, they were changed to red in 2010/11 after approximately 2.2 million blank blue V5 documents were stolen, allowing thieves to clone stolen vehicles much more easily.
It is a legal requirement in the UK for most types of motor vehicle to be registered if they are to be used on the public road. [1] All new and imported vehicles are required to be entered onto the register, which is administered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in Great Britain and by Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) in Northern ...
The registration certificate often also acts as proof of ownership, though technically this is not the case. [4] Ownership is governed by common law. Ownership of the vehicle (if a secured financial asset) may be checked through the Personal Property Securities Register of the federal government, though this is not a mandatory register. [5]
Pre-2012 logo of DVLA. The vehicle register held by DVLA is used in many ways. For example, by the DVLA itself to identify untaxed vehicles, and by outside agencies to identify keepers of cars entering central London who have not paid the congestion charge, or who exceed speed limits on a road that has speed cameras by matching the cars to their keepers utilising the DVLA database.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland: Spain: Directorate General of Traffic: Driver licensing and vehicle registration in Spain Sweden: Transportstyrelsen: Driver licensing and vehicle registration in Sweden Portugal: Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes (IMT) Driver licensing and vehicle ...
This vehicle was registered in Truro (AF) between 1972 and 1973 (L), an example of the 1963-1983 suffix system. The post-1973 yellow rear number plate of a vehicle registered in Peterborough (ER) between 1999 and 2000 (V), an example of the 1983-2001 prefix system. This Charles Wright typeface was the most common in the UK prior to the ...
A driving licence is required in England, Scotland, and Wales for any person (except the sovereign [1]) driving a vehicle on any highway or other "road", as defined in s.192 Road Traffic Act 1988, [2] irrespective of the ownership of the land over which the road passes. Similar requirements apply in Northern Ireland under the Road Traffic ...