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Old 14th April 2020, 17:00   #20
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Originally Posted by coolguy View Post
Not totally true any more. Any plates of cars seized by the Police for whatever reason and any registrations whose retention certificates have not been renewed are retained by the DVLA and can be bought. In fact all retained numbers on 18th December 2019 whose retention certificates had expired were taken back by the DVLA to be re-sold. Typically they did this without any warning to owners - I picked it up in Classic Car Weekly just in time!
Fair enough, I can only quote what a current manager at the DVLA has just quoted.
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