If you sell your car privately, don’t part with the document until you have been paid in full and the DVLA has been informed.

If you sell to a dealer you must make sure that you follow the correct procedure for transfer as detailed on the document itself. If you hand over the document to a new owner without registering the changes, you may find yourself liable for someone else’s traffic offences!

If the car is scrapped make sure that the registration document is returned to the DVLA and not handed over to the person taking it away as scrap.

NEVER keep the registration document in your car!