Section 27 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 provides for the sale of the right (“a relevant right”) to have a particular registration mark assigned to a vehicle registered in the name of the purchaser of the relevant right or his nominee. These Regulations amend the Sale of Registration Marks Regulations 1989 so as to allow the purchaser of a relevant right, on application, to make a nomination after the right has been granted or to change a nomination previously made. A fee of £25 is payable with the application. No fee is payable if the nomination is made before the relevant right is granted.

Other amendments are made to the 1989 Regulations including the substitution of references to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 for references to earlier legislation which was consolidated in that Act and the repeal of certain spent transitional provisions.