How to Change Your Car Registration

Relocation comes with a lot of work and the most important one is your car re-registration. The procedure of changing your car registration is quite confusing and tedious. Many people have no clue of this procedure and to get things sorted they end up paying a lot of money to the middlemen.

This article will tell you everything about transferring the registration of your car when you relocate.

NOC from the bank

If your car is financed by a bank, i.e., if you have a car loan against the car you are planning to take with you, then you will have to get a state transfer NOC from your bank. Visit your bank with an application and important documents such as ID proof, address proof and a valid reason of relocation like Job transfer certificate or anything else.

After checking all your documents and other details, bank will validate your request and when they find everything okay, they would give you letter of consent or NOC which approves the state transfer of your car.

Apply NOC from the RTO

You need to submit NOC form to the RTO office, where you got your car registered. Form 27 and Form 28 have to be submitted along with a photocopy of the NOC you obtained from your bank.

Here is the list of other documents which are required.

An application requesting for NOC of interstate transfer
Registration certificate, pollution under control paper, insurance papers and tax documents

Original chassis of the vehicle
3-4 photocopies of CMV Form 28
NOC from the traffic police department which state that you do not have any due fines for traffic violation under your name

When you submit all the above documents, RTO will issue the NOC certificate that would allow you to move your car from one state to another.

Re-registration of your car

Once your vehicle has relocated to a new state, you need to revisit the RTO office for the re-registration of your car along with the following documents.

Form 29-30 for the re-registration of your car’s number
Original copy of RC
Copy of insurance papers
Copy of NOC you obtained from the bank and RTO office
Emission test certificate
Original chassis of the vehicle
Your ID proof along with a local address proof
Your passport sized photos
Applicable fees like octroi charges and road tax (Octroi charges are calculated on the basis of depreciated value of a car and the state in which you are moving)

After submitting the above documents, you will get a new registration number of your car within few days.

Refund of road tax

Let’s assume that you purchased your car from Delhi and already paid a life time road tax, but after few months, due to some circumstances you need to relocate to Mumbai. In that case, you may request for refund of road tax but only after getting a new registration number from Mumbai.

Here are the following documents which are needed in this process.

An application which requests for refund of road tax
Duly filled Form 16
RC copy with new registration number of your car
RC copy of with old registration number of your car
Insurance certificate of your car
Passport sized photos
Address proof

Once these documents and an application seeking for refund is submitted, then the RTO office in Delhi would contact the RTO office in Mumbai to validate the mentioned registration number. They will ask for an intimation that is CRTI. The old RTO office would process the refund request after obtaining the CRTI receipt.

It is always advised that you should start the process of obtaining the letter of consent or NOCs from bank, traffic police and local police in advance because it usually takes 2-4 weeks for the validation of paperwork. And once you have all the documents in place then the process of transferring of registration of car will not be a concern at all.

How to Change Your Car Registration

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