Incorrect Offense code on a ticket? Challenge?

[fridaypassion]

So I got a fixed penalty code VE94148 defined as Drive vehicle failing to display front registration

I was driving a van where the plate had come off but the plate was in the front window so was on display which I think should be "offense" code

VE94152 Drive vehicle with registration mark obscured/not easily readable

Is it worth challenging?

[HantsRat]

Putting it on your window is not displaying the registration plate. The code is correct.

[Joeguard1990]

Fixing of registration plates: vehicles registered before the relevant date

7.—(1) This regulation applies to vehicles, other than works trucks, road rollers and agricultural machines, first registered before the relevant date.

(2) Except as provided in paragraph (4), a registration plate must be fixed in the manner required by paragraph (3) on—

(a)

the front of the vehicle, and

(

B)
the rear of—

(i)

the vehicle or,

(ii)

where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer or,

(iii)

where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.

(3) This paragraph requires each plate to be fixed—

(a)

in a vertical position or, where that is not possible, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable, and

(

B)
in such a position that in normal daylight the characters of the registration mark are easily distinguishable, in the case of a plate fixed on the front of the vehicle, from in front of the vehicle and, in the case of a plate fixed on the rear of the vehicle or trailer, from behind the vehicle or trailer.

[LeighW]

fridaypassion said:

I was driving a van where the plate had come off but the plate was in the front window

It's amazing how many vehicles you see these days where the front plate has fallen off and landed on the dashboard...

[GreatGranny]

fridaypassion said:

So I got a fixed penalty code VE94148 defined as Drive vehicle failing to display front registration

I was driving a van where the plate had come off but the plate was in the front window so was on display which I think should be "offense" code

VE94152 Drive vehicle with registration mark obscured/not easily readable

Is it worth challenging?

No.

You had a piece of plastic in your front window which just happened to have some letters and numbers on it.

If your plate was fixed in the correct place but was so dirty it couldn't be read then offence VE94152 would be appropriate.

[GreatGranny]

fridaypassion said:

So I got a fixed penalty code VE94148 defined as Drive vehicle failing to display front registration

I was driving a van where the plate had come off but the plate was in the front window so was on display which I think should be "offense" code

VE94152 Drive vehicle with registration mark obscured/not easily readable

Is it worth challenging?

No.

You had a piece of plastic in your front window which just happened to have some letters and numbers on it.

If your plate was fixed in the correct place but was so dirty it couldn't be read then offence VE94152 would be appropriate.

[fridaypassion]

Apparently the actual rule is that if the car has a manufactured space for the plate to go then that's where the plate has to go. It did so that was the basis on which the very busy police officer got it right.

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