Ticket errors or should i just cough up?

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Righty ho,
I was lucky enough to get a random stop on the snakes pass over the weekend on the bike.
Got given the good old safety speach about unroadworthy bikes more likely to have an accident, nothing else was checked at all except exhaust and plate, wasnt interested in checking tyres, chain, sprocket, swingarm, free play in anything, a load of toff really but whatever.

Anyway he said my plate was ilegal
He checked the spacing, it was correct
Letters was the right size
Its a 3d plate with abit of shading on the letters so said its ilegal aswell as no postcode on the bottom and a set of numbers or something along those lines, i have checked the website and 3d seems to be legal but cant find any info about the writing on the bottom of the plate.

I have gone over the ticket and theres a couple of errors on it

Aparently i have a suzuki r6 with the registration the exact same as my postcode.
Ticket


Offending plate


Is the plate legal? It was on the bike when i bought it 18 months ago and never thought anything of it.
Should i contest the ticket or just pay it and forget about it?

He did at one point record the plate on his bodycam.

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vonhosen said:

Plate doesn't conform with regs (no BS mark or suppliers mark).

I do recall having read this somewhere but cannot find this info on the dvla website?

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wack said:

Plates need the manufacturers postcode and a BS mark on them , it's so criminals can't clone cars because making a number plate is as complicated as a £5 note so only Halfords can do it

It's impossible to get a plate without the V5C and a blood sample so yours must have been a foreigner not authorised by the number plate technician at Halfords

You're lucky you got away with a ticket, forgery is a major crime

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brrapp said:

The regs for owners/drivers only pertain to the font, spacing and size of the lettering.
The regs for manufacturers (being registered, including post code and BS mark) only apply to the plate maker,not the driver.
These regs were introduced in England and Wales in Jan 2003 and in Scotland and Ireland in November 2008. The number on your bike (2004)could quite legitimately have been made quite legally in Scotland . If that plate was made in England after 2003 then the plate manufacturer was committing an offence. If it was made in Scotland after 2008 then the plate manufacturer was committing an offence. As the bike could have quite legitimately had that plate fitted in the UK before 2008, then the driver isn't committing any offence by displaying it as the regs aren't retrospective.

Hmm interesting

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The officer did turn on his body cam whilst checking the plate, he was happy with the size and spacing but because it didnt have the numbers at the bottom and the fact he said the shading on the plate was ilegal he was almost too excited to be giving me that ticket.
Either way it is ilegal and i cant be bothered to fight it.
I just cant believe that you dont get a chance to right your wrong these days.

in the name of safety my arse