77ATransfer of suspended registration

77A Transfer of suspended registration (1) This section applies if— (a) a vehicle’s registration is suspended under section 85; and (b) the registration is suspended because a registration payment made by the registered operator is dishonoured; and Note 1 The Road Transport (General) Regulation 2000, s 16 and s 17 relate to dishonour notices and suspension notices for dishonoured payments of amounts payable under the road transport legislation. Note 2 The suspension period for a dishonoured payment is 14 days (see Road Transport (General) Regulation 2000, s 17). (c) a person acquires the vehicle; and (d) the road transport authority is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the person did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, about the suspension when the person acquired the vehicle. (2) The person may apply to the road transport authority to re-establish (3) The application must— (a) nominate the registration period in accordance with section 31 (Duration of registration); and (b) be accompanied by the vehicle registration fee for the period. (4) On application, the road transport authority must— (a) cancel the vehicle’s registration and re-establish the registration for the period applied for; or (b) refuse the application.

(5) However— (a) section 78 applies to an application under this section as if it were an application to register the transfer of registration of a registrable vehicle; and (b) the road transport authority may refuse an application under this section only if allowed or required to refuse it under section 78. (6) If the road transport authority re-establishes the vehicle’s registration under subsection (4) (a), the person is not liable to pay a surcharge otherwise payable on re-establishing registration because the registration is cancelled.