How do I cancel a lien?

Security interest, leasing or a mortgage deed for business operators

You must contact the person who has a security interest in the vehicle, often a bank. It is the one who has a security interest in the vehicle who has to submit a notification to cancel the lien.

Execution charge or seizure

You must contact the legal representative of the case. The legal representative is the one representing the plaintiff and having to submit the notification to cancel the lien. The plaintiff can also submit the form.

Nothing for distraint or distraint deduction (deduction of salary or benefits)

You must contact the legal representative or the execution and enforcement commissioner in the case. The latter will also arrange the deletion.

Debt settlement

You must contact the execution and enforcement commissioner and ask them to submit a notification to us in order to cancel the lien.

When paying a claim where there is an officially registered lien, it will always take some time for the lien to be cancelled. The mortgagee will first have to send us a notification to cancel it. It normally takes some time from the point of time when we receive it, until the lien has been cancelled. Once the lien is cancelled, credit information agencies retrieve information about this.

You will find information about this on the website of the Norwegian Mapping Authority. They are responsible for the registration of real estate.

The Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property cancels liens automatically when the legal protection period has expired. For most types of documents, this occurs twenty years after the registration. Execution charges will automatically be cancelled five years after the registration. Information about distraint deduction is cancelled when the period of distraint expires. Nothing for distraint is cancelled three years after the distrainment has been held.

Security interest and leasing

You must write on the original document that it is to be cancelled. You need to sign the document and submit it by mail.

If you do not have the original document, you can request deletion in a letter. In order to identify the case, the letter must include sufficient infomation.  Preferably, please state the journal number. Upon deletion of a security interest, you must also confirm that the document has not been transferred to a new mortgagee. You must sign the letter and submit it by mail.

Mortgage document for business operators

You must write on the original document that it is to be cancelled. You must sign the document and submit it by post.

If you do not have the original document, you must contact the Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property for information.

Attachment charge or seizure

If you want to cancel a lien, you can write on the mortgage certificate or the register transcript which you received from us when the lien was officially registered. If the document contains several liens, please make sure that you write on the page where the relevant lien is listed.

If you do not have the mortgage certificate or the register transcript, you can write us a letter. The letter must contain enough information for us to know which case you refer to. Please state the journal number or document number. Please sign the document and send it to us by post.

The notification must be submitted to

The Brønnøysund Register Centre
The Register of Mortgaged Moveable Property
P. O. Box 905
N-8910 Brønnøysund