Staffordshire, UK. For someone who is interested in buying a private car registration number either for their own car or as a gift, there are many things that need to be considered. Such as the legal requirements and whether the dealer is a legitimate business or not. These are the fears of many people who would love to own a nice number plate that expresses their personality. Yet because there are so many dealers and the law is so stringent, they just keep putting it off. http://www.carreg.co.uk/
Carreg.co.uk is one of the leading number plate dealers in the UK, they operate online and from their offices based in Staffordshire. Established in 1988 the company has nearly twenty years experience in the business and they are a DVLA recognised number plate dealer. This means a lot when it comes to customer satisfaction and safety. http://www.carreg.co.uk/
The Number Plate Suppliers Register came into force on 1 January 2003, there are offences associated with dealers selling number plates. These offences are:-
1. Trading while unregistered
2. Supplying an unregistered business
3. Failure to keep records
4. Failure to make the appropriate checks
NB. It should be noted that the offence of selling 'counterfeit plates' (plates that do not conform to the specifications in the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks).
Who is exempt from the Register?
Number Plate Suppliers who only supply plates for newly registered vehicles for the first time in the UK.
Number plate suppliers located entirely outside England and Wales.
Manufacturers of number plate components who do not sell complete plates.
Businesses that assemble or purchase plates for their own use or fit them to their own vehicles but do not supply them to anyone else. (Please note that a motor trader who fits new plates to used vehicles to sell on is not exempted because the plates are supplied along with the vehicle).
It pays to use a DVLA recognized dealer, especially one like Carreg.co.uk who have nearly twenty years experience in the industry. http://www.carreg.co.uk/
Carreg have millions of private number plates available on a massive state of the art search system, prices for private number plates start from only £199 and go up to £500,000 for cherished number plates. Once the buyer has chosen and secured the private number plate, they can then be supplied as actual number plates. http://www.carreg.co.uk/
