Buying, selling and transferring personalised number plates

If you own personalised number plates, you can transfer them to another person or an organisation.

Buying personalised number plates not attached to a vehicle

If you are buying personalised number plates from another person, you will need to bring the following items to a transport and motoring customer service centre. If you live in a rural area, contact a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting:

• a completed personalised number plate/s transfer application (F2963) signed by all seller/s (referred to as the disposer on the form) and buyer/s (referred to as the acquirer on the form).
• evidence of identity—if personalised number plates are being transferred to 2 names, both applicants (new plate owners) must provide identification.
• the number plate transfer fee, unless an exemption applies.

Selling personalised plates attached to a vehicle that's not being sold

If you own a vehicle with personalised plates attached and you are selling the plates but keeping the vehicle, you will need to bring the following items to a transport and motoring customer service centre. If you live in a rural area, contact a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting:

• a completed remove and/or attach personalised/customised number plates application (F2964)—signed by one registered operator of the vehicle and all plate owners.
• evidence of identity—for one registered operator of the vehicle and all plate owners.
• the standard plate fee, unless an exemption applies. You will receive a set of standard number plates—you must attach number plates within 1 day of receiving them.

The person receiving the personalised number plates must bring the following items to a transport and motoring customer service centre. If you live in a rural area, contact a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting:

• a completed personalised number plate/s transfer application (F2963) signed by all seller/s (referred to as the disposer on the form) and buyer/s (referred to as the acquirer on the form).
• evidence of identity—if personalised number plates are being transferred to 2 names, both applicants (new plate owners) must provide identification.
• the number plate transfer fee, unless an exemption applies.

Personalised plates sold with a vehicle

If you are buying a vehicle which has personalised number plates, you must bring the following items to a transport and motoring customer service centre, If you live in a rural area, contact a QGAP office, Magistrates Court or local police station that provides vehicle registration services—please call to confirm before visiting:

• applicable items listed on the how to transfer a vehicle, trailer, caravan or boat registration in person page
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• a completed personalised number plate/s transfer application (F2963) signed by all seller/s (referred to as the disposer on the form) and buyer/s (referred to as the acquirer on the form)
• evidence of identity if personalised number plates are being transferred to 2 names, both applicants (new plate owners) must provide identification
• the number plate transfer fee, unless an exemption applies.

Personalised plates registered to a business that no longer operates

If a vehicle with personalised number plates is registered to an organisation that becomes a non-legal entity (that is, an organisation that can't legally pay debt or enter into a contract) the personalised plates must be transferred to another person or organisation.

Read more about vehicle registration and non-legal entities.

Personalised number plates on confiscated vehicles

You can't transfer personalised number plates that are attached to a vehicle that the Queensland Police Service has put under a number plate confiscation notice. You must wait until the confiscation period has passed.

Transfer fee exemptions

You may not have to pay a transfer fee if the personalised plates are being transferred:

• as a gift to a spouse (married or in a de facto relationship), parent or child of the disposer
• to a beneficiary, administrator or executor of a deceased estate
• as a gift—if someone buys personalised plates from Personalised Plates Queensland (PPQ) to give to another person, there is no transfer fee when the plates are given to the recipient. If the plates are purchased from PPQ, the purchaser will receive a 'Fee exempt' letter—the receiver of the number plates can present this when the number plates are transferred to receive the fee exemption.