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VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 20

Alteration of vehicle or of its use.

20.(1) The Ministry may by regulations make such provision as it considers
appropriate with respect to the allocation of registration marks for vehicles
to motor dealers who apply for such allocations and appear to the Ministry
suitable to receive them and with respect to the assigning of the marks to
vehicles by motor dealers.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under
this section may include provision

(a)as to the mode of application for the allocation of registration marks;

(b)as to the transfer of registration marks allocated to a motor dealer in
cases where the dealer dies or becomes incapacitated or bankrupt and in such
other cases as may be prescribed; and

(c)subject to section 25(2), as to the cancellation of allocations of
registration marks.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under
this section may also include provision for

(a)restricting the circumstances in which a motor dealer may assign a
registration mark to a vehicle;

(b)securing that registration marks allocated to a dealer are assigned by him
in such sequence as the Ministry considers appropriate and that no
registration mark is assigned to a vehicle to which such a mark has already
been assigned; and

(c)requiring a motor dealer to furnish the Ministry within the prescribed
period with the prescribed particulars in respect of each vehicle to which the
dealer assigns a registration mark.

(4) A registration mark assigned to a vehicle in pursuance of this section
shall be deemed to be assigned to it under section 19.


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