What action has to be taken when selling vehicle abroad
If the vehicle has a Vehicle Licensing Certificate/Vehicle Registration Certificate, the document is forwarded to the Vehicle Registration Unit, Shannon, Co. Clare with an accompanying letter explaining that the vehicle is being sold abroad.
The Vehicle Registration Unit will issue a letter to the seller that can then be given to the buyer of the vehicle. The buyer can give this letter to their relevant Licensing Authority in their Country. An alert is then entered on the National Vehicle Driver Computer System to the effect that the vehicle has been sold abroad and the Irish owner is no longer the current owner.
For a vehicle with a registration book (brown Logbook) or a trailer card, these documents are forwarded to any of Motor Tax Area Offices in Donegal, who will issue a letter with all relevant details of the vehicle that can be given to the new owner.
If the seller submits an RF200 form & the log book and the buyer is based in Northern Ireland,
the motor tax office will enter an export alert on the computer system & enter in the comments the name & address of the new owner & the date that the MTO is posting the log book to them.
The new owners name & address is entered on the logbook in the normal way.