Glossary

The odometer reading for the last recorded Certificate of Fitness or Warrant of Fitness inspection. This reading may be in miles or kilometres depending on the age of the vehicle.

A lease vehicle indicates that the vehicle under query is leased from a vehicle lease/rental firm by the person or organisation recorded as the vehicle’s registered owner. Read more »

There are 4 types of licences:

• Licence for normal road use (L);
• Exemption licence (X) when the vehicle has been exempted from normal road use licence: the expiry of an exemption licence is the date after which the vehicle must be relicensed for normal road use;
• Restoration licence (R) when vehicle is under repair or restoration and has been exempted from normal road use licence: the expiry of a restoration licence is the date after which the vehicle must be relicensed for normal road use;
• Licence for trade plate (T): this licence permits the licencee to use a vehicle without registering the vehicle. A trade plate is associated with a person/organisation, it cannot be associated with a vehicle and so any query on a trade plate will not return any vehicle details but provide owner details which are the details of the owner of the trade plate.

The process of issuing a licence which allows the vehicle to be used on the road for a 6 or 12 month period. Vehicles are licensed after they are registered. The vehicle owner pays a licensing fee, and a licence label is attached is attached to the vehicle.