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REGISTRATION The Court can also declare the person convicted to be disqualified from obtaining another license for such further time after the expiration of a license as it thinks fit.

No motor car, cycle car or motor cycle may be driven without having been registered. The owner must apply to the Council of any County or County Borough and furnish them with the particulars set out in the following form:—

County [or Courity Borough]

(1) Full name of owner; (2) postal address of usual residence of owner; (3) description or type of car; (4) type and colour of body of car; (5) weight unladen; (6) whether intended for (a) private use; (b) use for trade purposes; or (c) use as a public conveyance; (7) particulars as to the positions on the back and on the front of the car in which it is proposed to place the plates forming the identification mark. Signature of owner or person applying on his behalf. Address, Date of application. The fee for registration is: for a motor car or a cycle car, £1; for a motor cycle, 5/-; and payable when applying.

The Council shall assign a separate number to the motor car and register it by making the required entries in the Register of Motor Cars, and shall forthwith furnish the owner with a copy of the entries. If the ownership of a motor car is changed, notice of the change shall be given by either the new or the old owner to the Council with whom the motor car isregistered, and an application shall also be made either to cancel the registration of the car or to continue the existing registration under the new ownership. If an application is so made to cancel the registration of the motor car, and no application is made to continue the existing registration of the car, the registration of the car shall be cancelled accordingly, but if an application is made to continue the existing registration of the car, the new owner shall furnish the necessary particulars as to ownership, and on receipt of a fee of five shillings in the case of a motor car or cycle car, or of one shilling in the case of a motor cycle (which fees the Council are authorised to charge), the Council shall cause the necessary altera- — tions to be made in the Register of Motor Cars, and shall furnish the new owner with a copy of the altered entries in the Register. Any notice may be given or application or alteration made before the at of the actual change of ownership so as to take effect from that If the provisions as to notice and application are not complied with, the registration of the motor car shall be void. If any circumstance (other than a change of ownership) occurs in rela- tion to any motor car which affects the accuracy of any particulars entered as respects that car in the Register of Motor Cars, the owner of 4 the motor car shall forthwith inform the Council with whom it has been registered, and on receipt of such information the Council shall forthwith cause the entries respecting that motor car in the Register of Motor Cars 1 to be amended accordingly, and shall furnish the owner with a copy of the entries so amended. No fee shall be charged by the Council in respect of any such amendment of entries or transmission of copy of entries. If the Council are satisfied that a motor car which has been registered with them is destroyed, broken up, or permanently removed from the United Kingdom, or registered with another registering authority under the Act of 1903, or if the owner of a registered motor car, by application in writing, requests them to cancel the registration thereof (except where, — in the case of a change of ownership, there is an application to continue the existing registration), they shall cause the entries in the Register of Motor Cars with respect to the motor car to be cancelled, and may, if they think fit, assign the registered number of the motor car to any other motor car, whether belonging to the same or any other owner. - Note.—The penalty for neglecting to make a declaration for the purposes of registration, or for making an untrue declaration is £20. n“