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Apply to keep a vehicle registration number and put it on another vehicle (form V317)

Application form to keep a vehicle registration number (personalised number plate) and put it on another vehicle.

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V317

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Form and guidance on how to fill in form V317, application to keep a vehicle registration number and put (transfer) it on another vehicle. Or you can keep a registration number and put it on a certificate.

Online services

You can take a registration number off a vehicle online, and put a registration number on a vehicle online.

Use form V317 to transfer a vehicle registration number from one vehicle to another. The form includes guidance notes and information on where to send it.

You can transfer a vehicle registration:

  • from your vehicle to another one in your name
  • to a vehicle you’re buying
  • to someone else’s vehicle

Transfer a vehicle registration to someone else’s vehicle

If the number is being transferred to someone else’s vehicle, then both registered keepers need to complete the application.

Along with the form you’ll need to include:

Tax the vehicle at the same time

If either vehicle needs taxing, include:

Updates to this page

Published 1 February 2012
Last updated 26 April 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated V317 form

  2. Message about delays due to Covid removed.

  3. Pdf updated.

  4. Updated pdf.

  5. Paper application info added in summary.

  6. updated information.

  7. Added coronavirus update message.

  8. Added translation

  9. Updated V317W form

  10. Updated PDF.

  11. Welsh PDF updated.

  12. Updated pdf.

  13. Updated pdf.

  14. PDF updated.

  15. Updated Welsh language pdf.

  16. Updated version of pdf.

  17. Welsh PDF updated.

  18. Welsh PDF updated.

  19. PDF updated.

  20. PDF updated

  21. PDF update

  22. PDF updated.

  23. Updated version

  24. Added translation

  25. Links added to our new online services.

  26. Update to the V317W.

  27. Updates to section B and C and new section E ( Conditions on taxing a vehicle) added in guidance notes.

  28. Amended document to include abolition of the tax disc changes.

  29. Update due to centralisation of Northern Ireland vehicle services

  30. Updates to the form due to LO office closures.

  31. Reverted back to previous PDF version as LO changes are not due to go live until end of June.

  32. Updates are due to LO closures and the personalised registration work centralised at Swansea.

  33. First published.

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