Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 20

Motor vehicles broken up, destroyed or exported

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) When a motor vehicle is broken up, destroyed, or despatched permanently
out of Hong Kong, the registered owner of the vehicle shall, within 15 days
after the vehicle is broken up, destroyed or despatched, notify the
Commissioner in writing of the breaking up, destruction or despatch and shall
at the same time- (25 of 2005 s. 17)

   (a)  deliver to the Commissioner the registration document and
        vehicle licence (if not destroyed) relating to the vehicle; and

   (b)  if the vehicle is a vehicle to which there is assigned a
        personalized registration mark, return to the Commissioner the
        certificate  of allocation, in which case regulation 12R shall apply
        as if the notification under this subregulation was a notice under
        regulation 12R(1).

(2) On receipt of a notification under subregulation (1), the Commissioner
shall, subject to subregulation (3A), cancel the registration of the motor
vehicle and at any time thereafter, may, subject to regulations 9, 12A to 12K,
13 and 14, assign to any other motor vehicle the registration mark that was
assigned to such vehicle. <* Note - Exp. 
 X-Ref.: Sections 12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E, 12F, 12G,
12H, 12I, 12J, 12K *>

(3) On receipt of a notification under subregulation (1), the Commissioner may
require the registered owner to produce-

   (a)  a certificate signed by the person by whom the vehicle was broken up
        or destroyed;

   (b)  shipping documents relating to the despatch of the vehicle; or

   (c)  such other proof as will satisfy the Commissioner that the vehicle has
        been broken up, destroyed or despatched permanently out of Hong Kong.

(3A) If the registered owner wishes to have the registration mark that is
assigned to such vehicle transferred or held in abeyance under regulation 16,
he shall make an application to the Commissioner under regulation 16(1) before
the Commissioner cancel the registration of the vehicle under this regulation.
(25 of 2005 s. 17)

(4) Notwithstanding that he may not have received a notification under
subregulation (1), where the Commissioner is satisfied that a motor vehicle
has been broken up, destroyed or despatched permanently out of Hong Kong, he
shall, unless an application referred to in subregulation

(3A) is received, cancel the registration of the vehicle and at any time
thereafter, may, subject to regulations 9, 12A to 12K, 13 and 14, assign to
any other motor vehicle the registration mark that was assigned to such
vehicle. <* Note - Exp. X-Ref.: Sections 12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E, 12F, 
 12G, 12H, 12I, 12J, 12K *>
(25 of 2005 s. 17)