Form V778/1, for use in the transfer of Personalised Car Registrations and Number Plates
Form V778/1 was the form provided by the DVLA when applying to retain a registration number, it has now been replaced by the new version of the form V317.
The biggest change with the new V317 is the ability to specify a person who is not the registered keeper of the vehicle donating its registration number to become the Grantee.
The old V778/1 only allowed for a nominee whose rights are restricted to having that number assigned to his/her vehicle, the DVLA does not correspond with the Grantee in the same way as the Grantee.
Note that once the number is on retention it is still not possible to change the Grantee, it must be done at the time of retaining the number plates concerned.
This is especially useful when selling personalised number plates which are still on your car as you can make the buyer the Grantee who assumes full rights to that cherished number.
If you have any questions regarding any of the above , please contact us by email or telephone.
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Personalised Number Plates Information
Due to the unique nature of private number plates, for example "car registrations are not items of property in their own right. They are assigned, and may be withdrawn by the Secretary of State. They are assigned to the vehicle rather than its keeper" and many of the car registrations we have available to us involve a third party, therefore unless the registration you are interested in is one of our own stock cherished number plates it is subject to current availability. Similarly we rely on these third parties to inform us that it has been sold. If you see "your" cherished number plate on our website and it should not be there, we would welcome your feedback so that we can rectify the mistake. With regard to the Distance Selling Regulations, we must notify you that as the contract will begin as soon as payment is made, the cooling off period and right to cancel will no longer apply. This website contains cherished number plates from our own stock,car registrations where we are acting as an agent and unissued government stock.We reserve the right to withdraw from sale or change the price of any private number plate without notice. All personalised number plates on this website are subject to availability, D.O.T. transfer fee and some are also subject to V.A.T. at the rate currently set by the government. Additional costs are sometimes applicable for the transfer of personalised number plates to N.Ireland... E.&.O.E.
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