Bought a NI car and now being asked to register it with DVLA
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Hi, I've bought a car from Northern Ireland which has the DVLANI V5/C logbook and currently has Northern Ireland registration plates.
I rang DVLA Swansea asking where I send the V5 to with the new owner details, Northern Ireland or Swansea ... I was told to send it to my local DVLA office and include a SORN application as I was not putting it on the road. I was also told to put in a covering letter if I wanted to keep the NI registration number otherwise I'd automatically be issued with a mainland registration number.
I decided not to ask to keep the NI registration.
Got my application sent back this morning and was asked to fill in the attached V55/5 document ... this appears to be a form to apply for first tax disk and register a used motor vehicle. Further reading implies it is used to import a motor vehicle into the UK, i also need to include a fee of £55.
I thought NI cars are classed as UK cars and are no longer required to be imported.
Before I speak to my local office on Monday can anyone advise me further on this please?
Thanks
I rang DVLA Swansea asking where I send the V5 to with the new owner details, Northern Ireland or Swansea ... I was told to send it to my local DVLA office and include a SORN application as I was not putting it on the road. I was also told to put in a covering letter if I wanted to keep the NI registration number otherwise I'd automatically be issued with a mainland registration number.
I decided not to ask to keep the NI registration.
Got my application sent back this morning and was asked to fill in the attached V55/5 document ... this appears to be a form to apply for first tax disk and register a used motor vehicle. Further reading implies it is used to import a motor vehicle into the UK, i also need to include a fee of £55.
I thought NI cars are classed as UK cars and are no longer required to be imported.
Before I speak to my local office on Monday can anyone advise me further on this please?
Thanks
Edited by nlldavies on Saturday 13th October 22:38
I am pretty sure that if you call them up on Monday they will tell you that you don't need to pay the fee and you don't need any of the certs of conformity etc. That's just a generic form. Just fill in the basic details and have the money for the tax ready. That should be all. I imported a car from Ireland a few weeks ago and that's all I had to do.
I didn't have to pay anything when I did this less than two years ago. Even the tax disc was transferable and like the OP, I elected to put it on an age related plate. It does appear to have been imported on the V5 though, as it has gone a year of manufacture rather than a date and the date of first registration is the date I put it in my name. The bloke who bought it from me a year later didn't care though, so no worries! 
The dvla seem to make an arse of this often. I registered my car bought in belfast a couple of months back. I filled in the form, sent a covering letter asking to be put onto a uk plate. Low and behold I got the v5 back in my name but still on the irish plate. I was told it would automatically go onto a uk plate but to be sure I sent in the form and letter and still failed. It didn't cost anything. I've decided to stick with the irish plate for now.
Johnny.
Johnny.
The dvla seem to make an arse of this often. I registered my car bought in belfast a couple of months back. I filled in the form, sent a covering letter asking to be put onto a uk plate. Low and behold I got the v5 back in my name but still on the irish plate. I was told it would automatically go onto a uk plate but to be sure I sent in the form and letter and still failed. It didn't cost anything. I've decided to stick with the irish plate for now.
Johnny.
Johnny.
Common sense prevails! 
Roo said:
You'll still need to fill in the V55/5
Courtesy of WikipediaUlster (Irish: Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr[3][4][5] or Ulster)[6][7][8] is one of the provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths (Irish: cúige) ruled by a "king of over-kings" (rí ruirech). In modern times, clusters of counties have been attributed to certain provinces but these clusters have no legal status. The province itself, while enjoying common usage and forming a strong part of local identity, has no official function for local government purposes.
The definition of the province was fluid from early to medieval times. It took a definitive shape in the reign of King James I of England when all the counties of Ireland were eventually shired. This process of evolving conquest that had been underway since the Norman invasion of Ireland, particularly as advanced by the Cambro-Norman magnates Hugh de Lacy and John de Courcy. Ulster played a crucial role in the treaty negotiations that eventually resulted in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Under the terms of the Act, Ireland was divided into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland with the border passing through the province. "Southern Ireland" was to be all of Ireland except for "the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry" which were to constitute "Northern Ireland". The area of Northern Ireland was seen as the maximum area within which Unionists could be expected to have a safe majority. This was in spite of the fact that counties Fermanagh and Tyrone had Catholic Nationalist majorities. While these six counties and two parliamentary boroughs were all in the province of Ulster, three other counties of the province - Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan were assigned to the Irish Free State.
The name Ulster comes from the Irish Cúige Uladh (IPA: [ˈkuːɟ ˈʌlˠu][citation needed]) meaning "fifth of the Ulaidh". The Ulaidh were a group of tribes who dwelt in the region, while "fifth" refers to the five regions into which ancient Ireland was divided. In English, the first part of the name ("Ul") refers to the Ulaidh. The latter part of the name ("ster") comes either from the English possessive ending -s and Irish tír (Ulaidhs tír) or the Old Norse staðr, both of which mean "land" or "territory".
Ulaidh (or Cúige Uladh) has historically been anglicized as Ulagh or Ullagh[9] and Latinized as Ulidia or Ultonia.[10] The latter two have yielded the terms Ulidian and Ultonian. The Irish word for someone or something from Ulster is Ultach. Words that have been used in English are Ullish and Ulsterman/Ulsterwoman.
Northern Ireland is often referred to as 'Ulster',[11] despite including only six of Ulster's nine counties. This usage is most common amongst people in Northern Ireland who are unionist,[12] although it is also used by the media throughout the United Kingdom.[13][14] Some people, mainly Irish nationalists, object to this use of the term.[12
Edited by E-B on Tuesday 16th October 17:07
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