[Sandman]

[FONT=Arial]My dad just bought a car from a dealer in Northern Ireland. He wants to transfer his private plate from his old car to his new car and filled in all the paperwork. I said I would take it into the DVLA office for him as I work across the road from it. Anyway I handed over the paperwork to the guy and he went away to speak to someone else and came back and told me because the car is from Northern Ireland I need to complete a V55/5 “Application for a first licence for a used motor vehicle and declaration for registration”.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Is this correct, I had a look on the DVLA website and this seems to be for vehicles that are imported into the UK. The website also states that cars from NI do not need to be registered in the UK. The form is quite extensive and asks for such information as length, weight, maximum towing weight, co2 emissions, stationary sound level and a whole bunch of other stuff.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Has anybody put a private plate on a car from NI before and were you asked to complete this form?[/FONT]

[thesilverfox]

Originally Posted by Sandman

[FONT=Arial]My dad just bought a car from a dealer in Northern Ireland. He wants to transfer his private plate from his old car to his new car and filled in all the paperwork. I said I would take it into the DVLA office for him as I work across the road from it. Anyway I handed over the paperwork to the guy and he went away to speak to someone else and came back and told me because the car is from Northern Ireland I need to complete a V55/5 “Application for a first licence for a used motor vehicle and declaration for registration”.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Is this correct, I had a look on the DVLA website and this seems to be for vehicles that are imported into the UK. The website also states that cars from NI do not need to be registered in the UK. The form is quite extensive and asks for such information as length, weight, maximum towing weight, co2 emissions, stationary sound level and a whole bunch of other stuff.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Has anybody put a private plate on a car from NI before and were you asked to complete this form?[/FONT]

Not a private plate, but my GF had to fill out one of those forms to get an NI 206 registered with the DVLA (already on there with the DVLNI or whoever they are!).

You can get all the details off the V5 document for size, weight etc. They're not too picky about it - was relatively harmless. Reason it needed sorting, was because she needed an MOT, but wasn't prepared to take it back to NI.

It wasn't recognised by MOT stations (the NI MOT system seems to be more strict), so she was advised to get it registered. Standard, it seems, but a bit of a pain when you aren't expecting it.