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Amendment of section 131 (registration of vehicles by Revenue Commissioners) of Act of 1992.
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7.—Section 131 of the Act of 1992 is hereby amended—
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(a) in subsection (1), by the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (d):
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“(e) (i) The Commissioners shall, in accordance with such conditions (if any) as they may prescribe, establish a separate register, in this Chapter referred to as ‘the zz register’, for vehicles which are in the State temporarily and solely for the use of persons established outside the State, and in relation to which such persons apply in writing to the person maintaining the zz register for registration and furnish to him the prescribed particulars.
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(ii) There may be entered in the zz register such particulars in relation to a vehicle and its ownership and connected matters as the Commissioners consider appropriate.
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(iii) The person maintaining the zz register may amend an entry in or delete an entry from it.
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(iv) The zz register may be established and maintained in a form that is not legible if it is capable of being converted into a legible form.
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(f) In this subsection ‘persons established outside the State’ shall have the meaning assigned to it by regulations made by the Minister for the purposes of section 135.
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(g) The Commissioners may appoint persons resident or carrying on business in the State to maintain the zz register on their behalf.
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(h) There shall be assigned to each vehicle entered in the zz register an identification mark containing the letters zz and a unique number and the mark shall be displayed on the vehicle at all times while it is in the State.
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(i) A vehicle bearing an identification mark assigned to it under paragraph (h) shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 135(a), to be a vehicle temporarily brought into the State and shall be subject to such conditions, restrictions and limitations as may be prescribed by the Minister for the purposes of section 135(a).”,
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(b) in subsection (2), by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (b)—
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“(c) Where the prescribed particulars of a registered vehicle are altered after registration of the vehicle, the altered particulars shall be declared to the Commissioners for the purpose of amending the entry in the register relating to the vehicle.”,
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(c) in subsection (4), by the insertion after “time being” of “or is a vehicle referred to in section 143(3) or is exempt from registration under section 135A”,
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(d) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5):
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“(5A) At the request of the owner of a vehicle, the Commissioners may, subject to such conditions (if any) as they may specify, assign to the vehicle an identification mark chosen by the owner on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.”, and
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(e) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (8):
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“(9) The Commissioners may, at the request of a person who shows to their satisfaction that he has reasonable grounds for making the request and subject to such conditions (if any), and upon payment of such fee, as they may specify, furnish to the person—
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(a) such information from the register, or
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(b) copies of such entries in the register or of such parts of such entries in the register,
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as they consider appropriate.”.
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