The Financial Penalty Deposit and Fixed Penalty Offences (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2018

Amendments relating to the Trailer Registration Regulations 2018

9.—(1) The following offences in the Trailer Registration Regulations 2018(1) are fixed penalty offences for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1988 Act—

(a) regulation 5 (keeping or using an unregistered trailer on a journey to or through a 1968 Convention territory);

(b) regulation 19(1)(a) (using a registered trailer on a journey to or through a 1968 Convention territory with an expired registration document);

(c) regulation 19(1)(f) (failing to produce a registration document);

(d) regulation 19(1)(g) (failing to fix a registration plate on a registered trailer);

(e) regulation 19(1)(h) (displaying an unassigned registration mark on a trailer);

(f) regulation 20 (keeping or using an incorrectly registered trailer);

(g) regulation 21 (obscuring of registration mark); and

(h) regulation 22(a) (wilfully obstructing a person carrying out an inspection).

(2) In Schedule 3 (fixed penalty offences) to the 1988 Act, insert at the appropriate place—

“Offences under the Trailer Registration Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1203)
Regulation 5 of the Trailer Registration Regulations 2018	Keeping or using a trailer that has not been registered under those Regulations on a journey to or through a foreign country that is a contracting party to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (“the 1968 Convention”).
Regulation 19(1)(a) of those Regulations	Using a registered trailer with an expired registration document on a journey to or through a foreign country that is a contracting party to the 1968 Convention.
Regulation 19(1)(f) of those Regulations	Failing to produce a trailer registration document when required to do so.
Regulation 19(1)(g) of those Regulations	Failing to fix a registration plate on a registered trailer in accordance with those Regulations.
Regulation 19(1)(h) of those Regulations	Displaying a trailer registration mark on a trailer that is not assigned to that trailer.
Regulation 20 of those Regulations	Keeping or using an incorrectly registered trailer on a road.
Regulation 21 of those Regulations	Keeping or using a registered trailer on a road with a registration mark that is obscured.
Regulation 22(a) of those Regulations	Wilfully obstructing a person carrying out an inspection of a trailer under those Regulations.”

(1)

S.I. 2018/1203.