Where to go to revoke vehicle registration and license plate?

When selling a car, the owner must complete the procedures to revoke the vehicle registration and license plate. So where do you do these procedures? Please refer to the article below.

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1. Where to go to revoke vehicle registration and license plate?

(i) Traffic Police Department

The Traffic Police Department revokes vehicle registration and license plates of:

- Vehicles of the Ministry of Public Security;

- Cars of agencies and organizations specified in Appendix No. 01 issued with Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA;

- Cars of diplomatic missions, representative agencies of international organizations in Vietnam and cars of foreigners working in those agencies.

(ii) Traffic Police Department

The Traffic Police Department revokes vehicle registration and license plates of the following types of vehicles (except for the types of vehicles in (i)):

- Automobiles, tractors, trailers, semi-trailers and vehicles with similar structures to automobiles (hereinafter referred to as automobiles) of organizations and individuals with headquarters or residence in districts or cities under centrally-run cities; cities, counties and towns under provinces where the Traffic Police Department is headquartered;

- Cars registered with auction winning license plates; first-time vehicle registration for vehicles confiscated according to law and motorbikes with cylinder capacity of 175 cm3 or more of local organizations and individuals;

- Automobiles; motorbikes, scooters (including electric motorbikes) and vehicles with similar structures to motorbikes (hereinafter referred to as motorbikes) of foreign organizations and individuals, including local consular agencies.

(iii) District police

The police of districts, towns, cities under provinces and centrally run cities (hereinafter referred to as district-level police) registers the following types of vehicles: cars; motorbikes of domestic organizations and individuals with headquarters and residence in the locality (except for the types of vehicles in (i), (ii), (iv)).

(iv) Commune-level police

The police of communes, wards and towns (hereinafter referred to as the police at commune level) shall carry out vehicle registration (except for cases (i), (ii)) as follows:

- Commune-level police of districts and towns of centrally-run cities register motorbikes of domestic organizations and individuals with headquarters and residence in the locality;

- Commune-level police of districts, towns and cities under the province (except for commune-level police where the Traffic Police Department, District, Town and City Police are headquartered) with the number of new registrations of 150 vehicles/year or more (average in the last 3 years) shall register motorbikes of domestic organizations and individuals with headquarters and residence in the locality.

For specific areas, based on the actual situation of the number of registered vehicles, the nature of the area, and geographical distance, the Director of the Provincial Police Department shall agree with the Traffic Police Department to decide on vehicle registration as follows:

- For communes with less than 150 newly registered motorbikes per year, the commune-level police will directly register the vehicles or assign the district, town, city police or commune-level police that have been assigned to register vehicles to organize vehicle registration in clusters;

- For communes with a number of vehicles exceeding the registration capacity of the commune-level police, in addition to the commune-level police directly registering vehicles, the district, town, city police, and adjacent commune-level police that have been assigned to register vehicles can be assigned to support the organization of vehicle registration in clusters for domestic organizations and individuals with headquarters and residence in the area.

(Article 4 Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA)

2. When do I have to go through the procedure to revoke my vehicle registration and license plate ?

According to Clause 1, Article 13 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA, when transferring vehicle ownership or changing headquarters or residence from one province or centrally run city to another (hereinafter referred to as moving the original owner), the vehicle owner must carry out the revocation procedure at the agency managing the vehicle records.

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