The Road Vehicles (Statutory Off-Road Notification) Regulations 1997

Person keeping an unlicensed vehicle

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) where at any time after 31st January 1999—

(a) a person keeps an unlicensed vehicle; and

(b) a period of 12 months has elapsed throughout which the vehicle has been kept in Great Britain unlicensed and within which a nil licence has not been in force, the required declaration has not been made and the required particulars have not been furnished in relation to the vehicle,

then, unless a vehicle licence (or if appropriate a nil licence) for the vehicle has been taken out so as to run from the end of that period of 12 months, the keeper of the vehicle shall, not later than the day following the end of that period, make the required declaration and furnish the required particulars in relation to the vehicle.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) above, where a vehicle licence has been surrendered under section 10(2) of the 1994 Act, the vehicle to which it relates shall be taken to be unlicensed from the first day of the month in which the licence was surrendered.

(3) On a change of keeper of an unlicensed vehicle, unless a vehicle licence (or if appropriate a nil licence) for the vehicle is taken out, the new keeper shall make the required declaration and furnish the required particulars in relation to the vehicle—

(a) if he is a motor vehicle trader, not later than the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day following the day on which the change of keeper occurs; or

(b) in any other case, not later than the day following the day on which the change of keeper occurs.