Section 11 — ROAD TRANSPORT ACT 1987

(a)

assign to the motor vehicle the prescribed index mark indicating the registration area in which the vehicle is registered or the status of the owner of the motor vehicle and a separate number (in this Act such mark and number are referred to collectively as “the registration number”), and such registration number shall continue to be the registration number of such motor vehicle until it is broken up, destroyed or sent permanently out of

Malaysia, and such registration number shall not be assigned to any other motor vehicle:

Provided always that a person who is registered as the owner of a motor vehicle may, subject to any terms and conditions which may be prescribed, and on payment of the prescribed fee, have the number assigned to such motor vehicle assigned to another motor vehicle of which he applies to be registered as owner and which has not previously been registered, and the Director shall thereupon assign a new registration number to the first mentioned motor vehicle and make all necessary and consequential amendments to the register and registration certificate;

(b)

register the person by whom the application for registration was made as the owner of the motor vehicle; and

(c)

issue to that person a registration certificate in the prescribed form.

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(1A)

Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(a), the Director may, subject to any terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Director

General, and on payment of the prescribed fee, re-assign to the registered owner the registration number of any motor vehicle which has been reported to be lost, stolen, broken up, destroyed, or sent permanently out of Malaysia:

Provided that the registration number shall be re-assigned to a motor vehicle which has not been previously registered.

(2)

Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(a), the Director may change the registration number of any registered motor vehicle in respect of which fees under this Act are not payable (excluding motor vehicles belonging to the Government) and may assign the registration number of such motor vehicle to any other motor vehicle.

(3)

Where two or more persons have or claim possession and use of a motor vehicle, the Director shall register as the owner of the motor vehicle—

(a)

such one of those persons as may be nominated by them in the prescribed manner for the purpose of such registration; or

(b)

in the event of any dispute between those persons, such one of them as may be selected for the purpose by the

Director, after such inquiry as he may consider necessary.

(4)

In any case referred to in paragraph (3)(a), the Director may also enter in the register and in the registration certificate the names of the other claimants to the ownership of the motor vehicle, but no such entry of the name of any claimant shall be deemed to affect any liability which the person registered as owner may incur under this

Act, or to vest in such claimant any of the rights or powers conferred by this Act on the registered owner of a motor vehicle.

(5)

The decision of the Director under paragraph (3)(b) shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this Act, but shall not be deemed to prejudice or to affect in any way the right of any other claimant to the ownership of the motor vehicle to cause his rights to

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be determined by a court, and the Director shall amend the register in accordance with any final order made by such court.

Inspection of motor vehicles and information to Director General