Registration plate supplied without V5 verification
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I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
gmaz said:
I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Read the news recently...Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-4...
For a number plate to be legal it has to be made by a Government Approved supplier.
From the government website -
"You can only get a number plate made up from a registered number plate supplier.
Not all suppliers sell all types of number plate."
https://www.gov.uk/number-plate-supplier
It will and must have the supplier info in small print on the plate to be be legal.
Check the plate and I think I know what you will see or not see.
Here's the DVLA info
Rules for number plates - check the 5th separated requirement
The number plates on your vehicle must:
be made from a reflective material
display black characters on a white background (front plate)
display black characters on a yellow background (rear plate)
not have a background pattern
be marked to show who supplied the number plate
be marked with a British Standard number - this is ‘BS AU 145e’ for plates fitted after 1 September 2021
From the government website -
"You can only get a number plate made up from a registered number plate supplier.
Not all suppliers sell all types of number plate."
https://www.gov.uk/number-plate-supplier
It will and must have the supplier info in small print on the plate to be be legal.
Check the plate and I think I know what you will see or not see.
Here's the DVLA info
Rules for number plates - check the 5th separated requirement
The number plates on your vehicle must:
be made from a reflective material
display black characters on a white background (front plate)
display black characters on a yellow background (rear plate)
not have a background pattern
be marked to show who supplied the number plate
be marked with a British Standard number - this is ‘BS AU 145e’ for plates fitted after 1 September 2021
gmaz said:
I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Send them back and ask for a refund because they shouldn't have supplied them.Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Or be grateful that they didn't stick to the letter of the rules because if they had, they'd have required you to post your original V5C to them. Maybe bookmark the seller for future reference because they've made your life more convenient.
gmaz said:
I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
FFS...Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
lancslad58 said:
'In some cases this has led to registered owners facing fines or arrest 'Supplier fails to do checks, driver gets fined. Seems about normal. Fine the driver, now what was the question?
lancslad58 said:
gmaz said:
I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Read the news recently...Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-4...
lancslad58 said:
gmaz said:
I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Read the news recently...Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-4...
FFS BBC, we're not the 51st state yet.
PorkInsider said:
lancslad58 said:
gmaz said:
I recently bought a registration plate for my daughter's partner's transit van. from Amazon. After purchasing i expected them to request a scan of the V5 to verify I was the owner, but a request never arrived and the plate came within 3 days with all the legal markings. Now the address on the V5 matches one of my delivery address options on Amazon, but not the name or address it was delivered to.
Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
Read the news recently...Isn't this illegal to supply a plate without verification of ownership? Should they be reported as it is a way to get cloned plates?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-4...
FFS BBC, we're not the 51st state yet.
surveyor said:
They are a really good resource to get legal plates without faffing about.
The only thing the regs do is inconvenience the genuine. Anyone who wants hooky plates will be able to get them regardless of the daft regulations.
This. The only thing the regs do is inconvenience the genuine. Anyone who wants hooky plates will be able to get them regardless of the daft regulations.
I buy my plates from Jersey, where the silly V5 law doesn’t apply. I believe it also doesn’t apply in Scotland but may be wrong. Mine are totally legal - the postcode on them is a Jersey postcode.
My in-laws own a big haulage firm - they just knock their own up.
It’s a stupid law, so I’ll do anything to circumvent it (it’s also generally cheaper and saves me a drive). If the government wants to do something about cloned plates etc then it should do what many other countries do - have a government body do them, and only that body.
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