Road Traffic (Registration of Power-Assisted Bicycles) Rules 2017

Subject to paragraph (2), an owner of a power‑assisted bicycle may apply to the Registrar to register the power‑assisted bicycle in the owner’s name.

An individual who is below 16 years of age is not eligible to apply to the Registrar to register a power-assisted bicycle in his or her name.

An application by an owner of a power-assisted bicycle to register the power‑assisted bicycle in the owner’s name must —

The Registrar may refuse an application that is incomplete or not made in compliance with paragraph (1).

The Registrar may, subject to such conditions as the Registrar may impose, register a power‑assisted bicycle in the owner’s name if the Registrar is satisfied that —

Despite paragraph (3)(b)(ii), where a power-assisted bicycle that is the subject of an application submitted after 31 January 2018 —

Where an owner of a registered power-assisted bicycle intends to transfer the registration of that power‑assisted bicycle to the name of another person (called in this rule the transferee), the owner and the transferee must, not later than 7 days after the owner transfers possession of that power-assisted bicycle to the transferee, make a joint application to the Registrar to register that power‑assisted bicycle in the transferee’s name.

Where an owner of a registered power-assisted bicycle is deceased, any person who has proof of the person’s entitlement to that power-assisted bicycle (called in this rule the new owner) may apply to the Registrar to register that power-assisted bicycle in the new owner’s name.

An application under paragraph (1) or (2) must —

The Registrar may refuse an application that is incomplete or not made in compliance with paragraph (3).

Subject to paragraph (6), the Registrar may, subject to such conditions as the Registrar may impose, register a power‑assisted bicycle in the name of the transferee or new owner.

Where the transferee or new owner is an individual, the Registrar may register a power-assisted bicycle if the Registrar is satisfied that he or she is at least 16 years of age.

Where no joint application under paragraph (1) is made to the Registrar to transfer the registration of a power‑assisted bicycle to the name of the transferee within the time delimited by paragraph (1), the owner and the transferee shall each be guilty of an offence.

The Registrar may cancel the registration of a power‑assisted bicycle on the application of its owner.

An application under paragraph (1) must —

The Registrar may refuse an application that is incomplete or not made in compliance with paragraph (2).

The Registrar may cancel the registration of a power‑assisted bicycle in accordance with section 27 of the Act.

Subject to paragraph (4), on payment of the fee specified in the First Schedule and on receiving a notice or request as follows in accordance with this rule, the Registrar must —

A notice or request under paragraph (1) must —

Before making any change mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) in respect of a registered power‑assisted bicycle, the Registrar may require the owner of the registered power‑assisted bicycle to allow the Registrar to inspect that registered power‑assisted bicycle to verify such change.

The Registrar may refuse a notice or request under paragraph (1) that is incomplete, or if the owner does not comply with paragraph (3).

In this rule, “error” means any misnomer, misspelling, misprint, mistake, inaccuracy or any error of any other description that is inadvertent.

The Registrar must maintain a register containing the particulars of every registered power‑assisted bicycle and its owner.

Subject to paragraph (4), an owner of a registered power‑assisted bicycle must, without delay, notify the Registrar of any change in the particulars of the owner or the registered power‑assisted bicycle.

An owner of a registered power-assisted bicycle must, without delay, provide the Registrar with all such information as the Registrar may require, or allow the Registrar to inspect the registered power‑assisted bicycle, for the purposes of verifying any entry in the register relating to the registered power‑assisted bicycle.

If an owner of a registered power-assisted bicycle changes his or her residential address and reports the change under section 10 of the National Registration Act 1965, the owner is deemed to have complied with paragraph (2) in respect of the change of his or her residential address.

The Registrar may on application by any person —

An application under paragraph (1) must —

The Registrar may —

The Registrar must assign a registration number for every registered power-assisted bicycle.

Subject to paragraph (3), an owner of a registered power‑assisted bicycle must affix on the registered power‑assisted bicycle, a registration number plate that complies with all of the requirements specified in the Second Schedule.

The owner must affix the registration number plate on a registered power-assisted bicycle not later than 3 days after the Registrar assigns the registration number under paragraph (1), or such longer period as the Registrar may allow in any particular case (called in this rule the deadline).

An owner of a registered power-assisted bicycle who —

A person must not alter, or cause or permit the altering of, a registration number plate of a registered power-assisted bicycle so as to —

For the purpose of this rule and without limiting paragraph (1), a registration number plate on a registered power-assisted bicycle is altered if it —