Issue of duplicate certificate of registration

When the certificate of registration of a motor vehicle has been lost irrecoverably, the owner of the vehicle can apply for duplicate registration certificate to the R.T.O/Sub R.T.O within whose office records the vehicle has been included. The application for duplicate registration certificate shall be filed in form 26. Before filing the application for duplicate registration certificate, the applicant has to inform the concerned Sub Inspector of police about the missing of the original registration certificate and a certificate stating the missing of registration certificate is being enquired into has to be obtained from that station and the certificate has to be submitted along with the application for duplicate registration certificate.

On receipt of the application the concerned R.T.O will give you the specimen of a matter which you will have to publish In a leading local daily. After 15 days of publishing the matter in a daily, you will have to appear for a personal hearing before the R.T.O/Joint R.T.O who has issued the matter for publication and after hearing you and ascertaining the circumstances which led to the loss of the registration certificate, duplicate registration certificate will be issued by the concerned R.T.O/Joint R.T.O.

FORM 26

[See Rule 53]

APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUE OF DUPLICATE CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION

(To be made in duplicate if the vehicle is held under an agreement of hire-purchase/lease/hypothecation and in triplicate if the

Original Registering Authority is different, the duplicate copy and the triplicate copy with the endorsement of the Registering

Authority to be returned to the Financier and Registering Authority simultaneously on issue of duplicate certificate)

To

The Registering Authority,

……………………………

…………………………….

The certificate of registration of my/our motor vehicle, the registration mark of which is…………………. has been

lost/destroyed/completely written-off/soiled/torn/mutilated in the following circumstances:-

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

I / We hereby declare that to the best of my/our knowledge the Registration of the vehicle has not been suspended or

cancelled under the provisions of the Act or Rules made thereunder and the circumstances explained above are true.

I / We do hereby apply for the issue of a duplicate Certificate of Registration.

The written-off/soiled/torn/mutilated Certificate of Registration is enclosed.

The vehicle is not held under any agreement of Hire-purchase/Lease/Hypothecation. The vehicle is also not

superdari and free from all encumbrances.

I / We hereby declare that I / We on……………………….(date) have filed a complaint (copy enclosed) with the

police about the loss of Certificate of Registration immediately after the loss has been noticed.

Date………………………….. Signature / thumb impression of the Applicant

The vehicle is held under hire-purchase/lease/hypothecation agreement with……………………………..

………………………………. ………….and the “No Objection Certificate” has been granted / refused by the

financier hereunder: Where “No Objection Certificate” is refused, applicant shall make a declaration as required

under sub-section (8) of section 51.

Signature or thumb impression of the Owner

Name…………………………………………

Full address…………………………………..

………………………………………………..

Date………………….. ……………………………………………….

Note. – (1) Full particulars of the circumstances shall be furnished in the case of loss or destruction of the

Registration Certificate.

(2) Strike out whichever is inapplicable.www.keralamvd.gov.in Motor Vehicles Department | Government of Kerala Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989

CONSENT OF THE FINANCIER FOR GRANT OF “NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE”

UNDER SECTION 51 (6)

I / We being a party to an agreement of hire-purchase/lease/hypothecation in respect of motor vehicle specified

above;

(i) have “No Objection” in issue of the duplicate certificate of registration of the said vehicle.

(ii) have “Objection” in issue of the duplicate registration certificate of the said vehicle, for the reasons given

hereunder………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Date…………………… Signature of the Financier

OFFICE ENDORSEMENT

Ref. Number……………………………………Office of the………………………………………………………..

A duplicate certificate of registration as requested above is issued with the note of agreement of hirepurchase/lease/hypothecation on………………………………….and is noted in the original registration records in

Form 24.

Date………………………. Signature of the Registering Authority

To

The Financier………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

The Registering Authority…………………………………………………………………………………………..

(To be sent to both the above parties by Registered Post Acknowledgment Due)

Specimen signature or thumb impression of the Registered Owner and Financier are to be obtained in original

application for affixing and attestation by the Registering Authority with the Office seal in Forms 23 and 24 in such

a manner that the part of impression of seal or a stamp and attestation shall fall upon each signature:

Specimen Signatures of the Financier Specimen Signatures of the Registered Owner

1……………………………………… 1……………………………………………….

2…………………………………….. 2………………………………………………..