Road Safety Act 2006

45 Registration plates

(1) Part 2 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 (c. 3) (regulation of registration plate suppliers) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 31(1) (interpretation of Part 2), in paragraph (a) of the definition of “registration plate”, for “a registration mark” substitute “in accordance with regulations under paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section 23 of the 1994 Act a registration mark which complies with regulations under paragraph (a) of that subsection”.

(3) Section 28 (offences) is amended as follows.

(4) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) A person who sells a plate or other device which is not a registration plate only because the registration mark displayed by it—

(a) does not comply with regulations under paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 23 of the 1994 Act, or

(b) is displayed otherwise than in accordance with regulations under paragraph (b) of that subsection,

(or both) shall be guilty of an offence.

(1B) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide that the offence under subsection (1A) is not committed in circumstances prescribed by the regulations.”

(5) In subsection (2), after “(1)” insert “or (1A)”.

(6) In subsection (3), for “subsection (1) or (2)” substitute “this section”.

(7) In the heading, for “counterfeit registration plates” substitute “plates etc.”