Illegal Numberplate

[AlexL94]

I’ve just received a Traffic Offence Report for a non conforming number plate, which when questioned the officer informed me my number plate doesn’t have the suppliers name or postcode on the plate which is a legal requirement.

Although I’ve just looked at my number plate and it does actually say ‘PFC Dublin 22’ with PFC being the supplier and Dublin 22 being the postcode area, although this doesn’t seem to be the suppliers full postcode, could this be the potential issue? It does also have the correct BSAU 145d text.

I ordered them from a fairly well established online supplier, having to provide v5 etc and selected all the legal markings to be included.

Just wondering whether the plate is actually legal or not. Cheers

Edited by AlexL94 on Friday 25th September 20:09

[AlexL94]

NGee said:

No police has ever, ever stopped anyone for having the wrong postcode on their number plate, NEVER.

So there's either a lot more to the story than you're letting on, what did they really stop you for, or you've made the whole thing up.

Which is it?

I didn't say the police stopped me for having the wrong postcode on my number plate. It was a police checkpoint stopping cars at random of which I was one, they carried out various vehicle checks.

Gareth79 said:

Their website just has Dublin 22, do they even have a newer more detailed postcode for that location?

Here's the part of BSAU145d about the supplier's details:



edit: Looking at the PFC website, they don't print the details in the middle, where most plates have them:
"The legal details are printed in small text at the bottom right hand corner in a light grey."

edit 2: Actually the standard shows a sample with the details in the middle, but it doesn't state that it *must* be there, in fact the text above says it "should" be displayed as below not "shall" which implies a mandatory requirement:

Edited by Gareth79 on Friday 25th September 21:22

Thanks for this information Gareth, based on this do you think it's worth arguing that my plates are in fact actually legal and contesting the ticket? Cheers

[AlexL94]

The number plate was supplied in 2018 so this would be after the Eircode system was introduced to Ireland, although a quick Google suggests using this system isn't compulsory. Which could explain why the number plate was supplied with just Dublin 22 on it.

Regardless, as someone mentioned above 'PFC' still isn't the actual Ltd company name, unfortunately. Might have to just take this one as a learning curve!

[AlexL94]

Based on the conversation I had with the officer, she gave me the impression that she didn’t acknowledge there to be any supplier information on the plate at all.

Best get some proper plates made up from a more reputable supplier I guess. What’s the likely outcome of this TOR, just a £100 fine?

[AlexL94]

Just as an update, conditional offer of fixed penalty letter arrived in the post today, but for the offence of no registration plate which is a bit confusing considering I did have a plate and the offence on my original ticket was just non conforming VRM. Original offence code was VE94094, this letter now has the offence code VE94091.