Tax disc questions??

[oc7]

Hello

I was driving up from the girlfriends house on saturday afternoon and my tax disc fell off. The sticky pads had become unstuck for the nice damp weather we have been getting in "sunny lancashire"

Just wondering, if on the motorway, and the tax disc would fall on the passenger floor whilst moving, with only one person in the car. Would it be an offence if you were to pull over on the hard shoulder and secure it back onto the window? I heard about the woman who asked for directions, and got a ticket for being on the hard shoulder!!

Also, a while back, a friend had his tax secured on the top left of the window, is this an offence too? ? He said it was because of the whay the windscreen declined in angle, he wanted to stick it up there...

All the best

Gavin.

[AWRacing]

I'd just leave it on the floor till I got to my destination.

[Dwight VanDriver]

I very much doubt oc7 that what you mention could be classed as an emergency thus allowing a stop on the hardshoulder.

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002
Reg 6 : The licence shall be exhibited on the vehicle:

in the case of any vehicle fitted with a glass windscreen in front of the driver extending across the vehicle to its near side, on or adjacent to the near side of the windscreen

... and there you have it.

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[oc7]

Thanks for the info.

Gavin.

[sultanbrown]

Genuinely interested; couldn't he be found guilty of failure to display?

[FunkyGibbon]

If the DVLA's computer is as reliable as the adverts suggest, why do we have to display a tax disc at all?

[Dwight VanDriver]

Sultan Brown

Technically yes.

If you are going to to throw the book at him also consider (if action observed whilst he has top third of his body in passenger well) offences ranging down from dangerous driving to driving in a manner not having proper control.

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