Quick Q for BIB - regarding rear numberplate
Discussion
After the Golf got vandalised at the weekend, and the tossers ripping off my rear numberplate surround complete with numberplate, I'm now minus a rear numberplate...
However, I found the numberplate, and until I get round to finding some self adhesive pads to stick it all back on, am I commiting an offence to show my numberplate balanced up in my rear window?
However, I found the numberplate, and until I get round to finding some self adhesive pads to stick it all back on, am I commiting an offence to show my numberplate balanced up in my rear window?
Laid in the back window would appear not to comply with the law which states:
A registration plate must be fixed on the rear of -
(a) the vehicle, or
(b) where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer, or
(c) where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.
Where a vehicle (or, in a case where the plate is required to be fixed on a trailer, that trailer) has been constructed so as to satisfy the requirements of the relevant type-approval directive, whether or not it is required by law to satisfy them, the plate may be fixed in the space provided in accordance with those requirements but if it is not so fixed it must be fixed -
(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, 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 from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified .
Reg 5 RV Display of Reg Marks Regs 2002.
Bear in mind also that a rear number plate has to be illuminated during the hours of darkness.
dvd
A registration plate must be fixed on the rear of -
(a) the vehicle, or
(b) where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer, or
(c) where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.
Where a vehicle (or, in a case where the plate is required to be fixed on a trailer, that trailer) has been constructed so as to satisfy the requirements of the relevant type-approval directive, whether or not it is required by law to satisfy them, the plate may be fixed in the space provided in accordance with those requirements but if it is not so fixed it must be fixed -
(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, 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 from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified .
Reg 5 RV Display of Reg Marks Regs 2002.
Bear in mind also that a rear number plate has to be illuminated during the hours of darkness.
dvd
Dwight VanDriver said:
Laid in the back window would appear not to comply with the law which states:
A registration plate must be fixed on the rear of -
(a) the vehicle, or
(b) where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer, or
(c) where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.
Where a vehicle (or, in a case where the plate is required to be fixed on a trailer, that trailer) has been constructed so as to satisfy the requirements of the relevant type-approval directive, whether or not it is required by law to satisfy them, the plate may be fixed in the space provided in accordance with those requirements but if it is not so fixed it must be fixed -
(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, 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 from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified .
Reg 5 RV Display of Reg Marks Regs 2002.
Bear in mind also that a rear number plate has to be illuminated during the hours of darkness.
dvd
A registration plate must be fixed on the rear of -
(a) the vehicle, or
(b) where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer, or
(c) where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.
Where a vehicle (or, in a case where the plate is required to be fixed on a trailer, that trailer) has been constructed so as to satisfy the requirements of the relevant type-approval directive, whether or not it is required by law to satisfy them, the plate may be fixed in the space provided in accordance with those requirements but if it is not so fixed it must be fixed -
(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, 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 from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified .
Reg 5 RV Display of Reg Marks Regs 2002.
Bear in mind also that a rear number plate has to be illuminated during the hours of darkness.
dvd
Would a BIB tug me for it, if it was obvious that it ad just fallen off or something?
Timberwolf fill your boots
www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
Neil: If he was full of arse biting powder then maybe a tug. Quite possible a normal one would realise what was up but there again in the land of the camera a word in the shell like.
dvd
www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
Neil: If he was full of arse biting powder then maybe a tug. Quite possible a normal one would realise what was up but there again in the land of the camera a word in the shell like.
dvd
i think the only regulations on the front plate, is within 45degrees of vertical & viewable from directly in front. i run my landy for nearly 2 years with the numberplate on the front of the roofrack without a single problem. its now an illegal sticky one on the bonnet as the roofrack has gone, but thats another story.
Dwight VanDriver said:
Timberwolf fill your boots
www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
Neil: If he was full of arse biting powder then maybe a tug. Quite possible a normal one would realise what was up but there again in the land of the camera a word in the shell like.
dvd
Is it still only a £30 fine and no points for a bust?www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
Neil: If he was full of arse biting powder then maybe a tug. Quite possible a normal one would realise what was up but there again in the land of the camera a word in the shell like.
dvd
BliarsGoing said:
Dwight VanDriver said:
Timberwolf fill your boots
www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
Neil: If he was full of arse biting powder then maybe a tug. Quite possible a normal one would realise what was up but there again in the land of the camera a word in the shell like.
dvd
Is it still only a £30 fine and no points for a bust?www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
Neil: If he was full of arse biting powder then maybe a tug. Quite possible a normal one would realise what was up but there again in the land of the camera a word in the shell like.
dvd
Probably..... plus the £4,000 in costs if it goes to court
I've just read the contents of the link provided.
Am I right in reading that a vertical front plate is OK if it can be seen from A POSITION ON THE GROUND 22m in front of the car (and all points within a square) 22m x 22m of which the plate and that point are two corners.
The reason I ask is that that will make it possible to affix it to the only truly vertical space I can find on or near the front of the car. That position is somewhat lower than is normal!
Am I right in reading that a vertical front plate is OK if it can be seen from A POSITION ON THE GROUND 22m in front of the car (and all points within a square) 22m x 22m of which the plate and that point are two corners.
The reason I ask is that that will make it possible to affix it to the only truly vertical space I can find on or near the front of the car. That position is somewhat lower than is normal!
eccles said:
sticky ones aren't illegal on older cars 
Sticky ones aren't illegal on any cars.
So long as they meet the applicable British Standard and are mounted so as to comply with the regulations.
It would be a right jobsworth who bothered to pull you for a sticky plate on the bonnet of an E-type, though...
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