Tips and Information

How to safely buy a car at auction and save money

18 July 2024

Buying cars at auction can be a great way to save money. With a little preparation you could snap up a real bargain. Here's how to buy safely.

Everything you need to know about flat or leaking tyres

11 July 2024

Flat or damaged tyres are one of the commonest breakdowns. Here's how to deal with or avoid a flat.

12 things many of us don't know about the driving licence

04 July 2024

Although the driving licence is one of our most important documents, it often sits in our wallets and purses, forgotten until we need to collect a parcel from the post office or we get pulled over by the police. What do you really know about your licence?

How to get a private number plate

30 May 2024

A man mounting a new private number plate on the rear of a car

Whether you want your name on a number plate, your initials, or just a dateless registration to hide the age of your car, the process is the same, and it's really pretty easy. Here's how.

Drug driving: the misunderstood offence?

10 May 2024

Where the profile of the drink driving problem is high, and receives a seasonal boost around every Christmas when police launch annual awareness and enforcement campaigns, drug driving remains in relative shadow. Many people aren't even aware that there is a specific problem or offence known as drug driving. Even fewer people know what constitutes drug driving.

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The role of DVLA

Car registrations and number plates, including personalised number plates, in the UK, are the responsibility of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, usually known as the DVLA. It issues new registrations twice a year and also maintains the central database that records details of all vehicles licensed to drive on UK roads, along with their keeper and registration information.

Regtransfers works closely with DVLA to complete registration transfers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Regtransfers is a DVLA-registered supplier of personal car registrations and number plates and is listed on the DVLA Registrations website. All number plates supplied by Regtransfers comply with DVLA's prescribed standards and regulations.

DVLA administers all UK registration transfers and issues updated registration documents when the registration number of a car is changed, or when a registration is removed from a vehicle and placed on a retention document in accordance with the DVLA Retention Scheme.

DVLA is a registered trade mark of the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency. Regtransfers is not affiliated with the DVLA or DVLA Personalised Registrations. Regtransfers is a recognised reseller of unissued Government stock.

Number plate regulations

When a car is on the road, it is an offence to display number plates bearing any number other than the vehicle's officially recorded registration number. If you purchase a private registration, learn how to transfer private plates before displaying the new number.

All registration number plates displayed on UK vehicles must comply with the official number plate regulations. DVLA oversees enforcement of number plates display regulations and maintains a register of approved manufacturers and retailers of vehicle number plates.

Regtransfers is not part of, and is not formally affiliated with DVLA.