
The traffic police force recovered the license plate after an owner sold the car – Photo: Illustration
On the morning of August 15, the first day of Circular 24 of the Ministry of Public Security, regulating the issuance and cancellation of vehicle registration and number plates, came into effect.
As reported by the reporter from the Road Motor Vehicle Registration and Management Team (No. 282 No Trang Long Street, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City), a large number of people came to complete the vehicle registration and purchase procedures. sale.
Ms. Vu Thi Huyen (36 years old, lives in Ho Chi Minh City) said that this morning (August 15) she went to the car registration team to complete the procedures for buying and selling cars. She bought a used car and accompanied the owner to the vehicle registration team to complete the purchase and sale procedures.
The car he bought can be taken back to the original application in Ho Chi Minh City and then transferred to be registered in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province. After withdrawing the application, the vehicle owner will have to complete the process of canceling the license plate and vehicle registration certificate of the car and storing it in the warehouse.
Similarly, Mr. Tran Tuan Viet (45 years old) went to the team to complete the procedures for buying and selling cars. He sold the car to Dong Nai Province. After completing the buy and sell procedures and completing the recovery procedures, the traffic police proceeded to cancel his license plate and vehicle registration.
According to the vehicle registration team leader, when people go through the process of buying and selling used cars, the license plate and vehicle registration certificate will be recovered by the traffic police and stored in the electronic data warehouse. After 5 years, those who will not need to use this number plate again, it will be taken back and kept in the godown of the traffic police department and will be reissued to others.
When selling a car, the owner can only sell the car and must return the license plate and vehicle registration to the traffic police to store it in the warehouse. When people buy a new car of the same type (car or motorcycle), the police will reuse the old number plate to register the new car. At this point, the police will issue a new vehicle registration certificate with the identified number plate to the previous car owner.
According to this leader, the license plate has been identified and when it is re-issued to the people, the car should be of the same type.
“For example, before you owned a truck with an identified number plate and sold it to someone else, the traffic police confiscated the number plate. After that, you bought a small car, you could re- The identification number of the previous truck was used, but a new number plate has to be registered. When you buy a truck, the license plate of the previous truck will be reissued to you,” the leader explained.
As far as motorbikes are concerned, it doesn’t matter the type of vehicle. If the vehicle has the same cylinder capacity, people can use the number plate that has been identified to link it to another motorcycle.
“For example, before you own a motorcycle with 150 cc cylinder capacity and sell it, the traffic police will cancel the license plate and registration certificate. Thereafter, you buy another motorcycle but with the same cylinder capacity. The old Car, police will take back – issue the number plate which has been identified to the previous motorcycle,” explained the leader.
In addition, as of the morning of August 15, the system of declaring the cancellation of number plates and registering vehicles on the public service portal is “congested”, many people are difficult to operate, unable to declare.

Vehicle Registration Team 282 Ngo Trang Long on the morning of 15 August saw a large number of people attending vehicle registration procedures – photo: illustration

People announce the procedures for canceling license plates and registering vehicles on a public service portal when making a car sale transaction – Photo: Illustration

People come to the Traffic and Order police team of Thu Duc City Police to complete vehicle registration procedures, buy and sell cars on August 15 – Photo: Thu Dung
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