Post by wannabe on Mar 28, 2018 13:32:43 GMT
Ok, after a quick search:
www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates
www.gov.uk/government/publications/vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/533255/inf104-vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates.pdf
The points and fines bit must be set out elsewhere - more searching needed!
www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates
You could be fined up to £1,000 and your car will fail its MOT test if you drive with incorrectly displayed number plates.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/533255/inf104-vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates.pdf
Vehicle registration numbers must be correctly displayed on number plates as set out in the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations (as appropriate). These regulations govern how vehicle registration number plates are designed, manufactured and displayed.
It is an offence to alter, rearrange or misrepresent the numbers and letters on a number plate to form names or words, or in a way that makes it difficult to read the registration number. For example, you should not use fixing bolts to change any of the letters or numbers. Anyone with a number plate that does not display the registration number correctly could be fined up to £1000. In some cases, the registration number may be permanently withdrawn.
It is an offence to alter, rearrange or misrepresent the numbers and letters on a number plate to form names or words, or in a way that makes it difficult to read the registration number. For example, you should not use fixing bolts to change any of the letters or numbers. Anyone with a number plate that does not display the registration number correctly could be fined up to £1000. In some cases, the registration number may be permanently withdrawn.
but that doesn't mention anything about 'lost' number plates.
This is the legislation:
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/pdfs/uksi_20010561_en.pdf
There is a lot to read! and a lot of internal references, but this bit lays out the need for a front plate:
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/regulation/6/made
Fixing of front registration plates: vehicles registered on or after the relevant date
6.—(1) This regulation applies to vehicles, other than works trucks, road rollers and agricultural machines, first registered on or after the relevant date.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (5), a registration plate must be fixed on the front of the vehicle in the manner required by paragraph (3).
(3) This paragraph requires the plate to be fixed—
(a)
vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable,
.
(b)
in such a position that in normal daylight the characters of the registration mark are easily distinguishable from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified in paragraph (4).
.
(4) The diagonal length of the relevant area is—
(a)
in the case of a mark having characters the width of which is at least 57 millimetres, 22 metres,
.
(b)
in the case of a mark having characters the width of which is 50 millimetres, 21.5 metres,
.
(c)
in the case of a mark having characters the width of which is 44 millimetres, 18 metres
6.—(1) This regulation applies to vehicles, other than works trucks, road rollers and agricultural machines, first registered on or after the relevant date.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (5), a registration plate must be fixed on the front of the vehicle in the manner required by paragraph (3).
(3) This paragraph requires the plate to be fixed—
(a)
vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable,
.
(b)
in such a position that in normal daylight the characters of the registration mark are easily distinguishable from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified in paragraph (4).
.
(4) The diagonal length of the relevant area is—
(a)
in the case of a mark having characters the width of which is at least 57 millimetres, 22 metres,
.
(b)
in the case of a mark having characters the width of which is 50 millimetres, 21.5 metres,
.
(c)
in the case of a mark having characters the width of which is 44 millimetres, 18 metres
The 'relevant area' mentioned in 6(3)b being this:
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/regulation/4/made
4. In this Part the following expressions shall have the following meanings—
“diagonal length”, in relation to a relevant area, means the length of a line drawn diagonally across the square enclosing the area (so that the extent of the relevant area is thereby delimited);
“relevant area”, in relation to a registration plate, means the area contained in a square described on the ground—
(a)
in front of the vehicle in the case of a plate fixed on the front of the vehicle, and
(b)
behind the vehicle in the case of a plate fixed on the rear of the vehicle,
where one corner of the square is immediately below the middle of the plate and the diagonal of the square from that corner is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle;
“diagonal length”, in relation to a relevant area, means the length of a line drawn diagonally across the square enclosing the area (so that the extent of the relevant area is thereby delimited);
“relevant area”, in relation to a registration plate, means the area contained in a square described on the ground—
(a)
in front of the vehicle in the case of a plate fixed on the front of the vehicle, and
(b)
behind the vehicle in the case of a plate fixed on the rear of the vehicle,
where one corner of the square is immediately below the middle of the plate and the diagonal of the square from that corner is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle;
The points and fines bit must be set out elsewhere - more searching needed!
le sigh