Fixed Penalty Information

[pon]

Hi All

Today the fines for not wearing seat belts and for displaying illegal number plates has doubled from £30 to £60.
The increases follow public consultation and aim to ensure seatbelts are used to reduce fatal accidents - the Home Office say that wearing a seatbelt reduces the risk of dying in a 30mph accident by 60 per cent. The increase also covers misrepresentation of vehicle registration marks, including failure to conform with rules on font, size and colour of number plates.
The use of illegal number plates can have a significant impact on criminal investigations and crime detection apparently.

[Andy J]

It's about time there was a greater penalty for ilegaly altering number plates for the sake of vanity, I've nothing against personal plates but I've seem some that have been blatently altered to the degree that it is hard to read what the original number should be and up till now the police seem to ignore it, let's hope it's enforced properly.

[eob]

It's about time there was a greater penalty for ilegaly altering number plates for the sake of vanity, I've nothing against personal plates but I've seem some that have been blatently altered to the degree that it is hard to read what the original number should be and up till now the police seem to ignore it, let's hope it's enforced properly.

I doubt it. There is a female Peugeot driver that I see regularly at the junction of the A71 and the A77 in Kilmarnock. She (but most probably hubby) has altered two 1's with a black bolt to look like a 'U'.(You know who you are) This is on her second Pug now so she obviously hasn't been repremanded.
I don't know why, but it really annoys me when I see it.

Private plates themselves generate a 15 minute rant from me. My wife bought me one for my birthday once and it has been nothing but bother.
Bloomin DVLA

[hagis]

Do you get points for having a dodgy set of plates? I'd hope so, I agree with the other posters on here. It's a minor offence but it still a legal requirement. It annoys me seeing motorbikes with tiny plates on them, obviously an attempt to try and cut down on the likelihood of getting caught speeding.

[mwvw]

£30 or £60 doesn't make that much difference, unless you have more police to enforce the law and drivers realise that the likelyhood of being caught is greater then you're not going to see that much change.

[Crasher]

Another stealth tax increase. It would make sense if we actually had Police officers out on patrol. The reason they don’t like doctored number plates is not for crime detection, it is so they can automatically send you a speeding ticket in the post for doing 33 in a 30 rather than having to examine the photo to get the number.