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Section 9 of Traffic Act CAP 403: Change of ownership

    

(1) No motor vehicle or trailer the ownership of which has been transferred by the registered owner shall be used on a road for more than fourteen days after the date of such transfer unless the new owner is registered as the owner thereof.
(2) Upon the transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle or trailer, the registered owner thereof shall, within seven days from the date of the transfer, inform the Registrar in the prescribed form of the sale or disposition, name, postal and email addresses and telephone number of the new owner, the mileage recorded on the mileage recorder (if any), of the motor vehicle, and such other particulars as may be prescribed, and shall deliver the registration book in respect of such vehicle to the Registrar together with the transfer fee, whereupon the vehicle shall be registered in the name of the new owner:
Provided that, where in any case the registered owner of a motor vehicle fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection, the Authority may, on being satisfied that the registered owner has died, left Kenya, cannot be traced, or has refused to comply with the provisions of this subsection, cause the vehicle to be registered in the name of the new owner on payment of the prescribed fee.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply to a change of possession consequent on a contract of hiring where the period of hiring does not exceed three months or where the registered owner continues to employ and pay the driver of the vehicle.
(4) Application for registration of a new owner may be made before the actual transfer of the vehicle, but the registration of a new owner shall not be effective until the registration certificate has been surrendered to and re-issued by the Authority.
(5) Subsections (1), (2) and (4) shall not apply to any change of possession of a vehicle which occurs by reason of the vehicle being lawfully seized under a hire purchase agreement, but in such event the following provisions shall apply—
(a) the registered owner or his representative shall, within fourteen days of the seizure, deliver the registration certificate to the person who has seized the vehicle, and inform the Authority in writing of the change of possession;
(b) such person shall, within fourteen days of receiving the registration certificate, apply to the Authority to be registered as the owner thereof in place of the registered owner, and shall on payment of the prescribed fee be registered accordingly.
(6) On the registration of a new owner, the Authority shall make the necessary alterations to the registration book, and shall deliver the amended registration book to the new registered owner and may, if it considers it fit, issue a new registration book.

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