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Attaching a fake plate to a vehicle and passing it off as road-legal would be an offence
Attaching a fake plate to a vehicle and passing it off as road-legal would be an offence, but getting a fake plate made up and wandering around with it in your hands is not remotely an offence.
Quote from: Bazster on 09 January, 2015, 03:44:35 PMAttaching a fake plate to a vehicle and passing it off as road-legal would be an offenceAs would using a real reg. no from a vehicle that is registered to/owned by someone else.
Quote from: DastardlyDick on 09 January, 2015, 04:09:51 PMQuote from: Bazster on 09 January, 2015, 03:44:35 PMAttaching a fake plate to a vehicle and passing it off as road-legal would be an offenceAs would using a real reg. no from a vehicle that is registered to/owned by someone else.If you attached it to a vehicle. What's being discussed here is sticking it to a board and walking around with it.
Quote from: DastardlyDick on 09 January, 2015, 04:09:51 PMQuote from: Bazster on 09 January, 2015, 03:44:35 PMAttaching a fake plate to a vehicle and passing it off as road-legal would be an offenceAs would using a real reg. no from a vehicle that is registered to/owned by someone else.On the other hand, if one were to fix a "show plate" on a vehicle that was on private land i.e. in a privately owned car park there could be no offence. There would be no question of trying to pass it off as a road legal vehicle. If it is an offence, how many car manufacturers would be guilty of an offence for fitting dummy plates on vehicle that are on display in many supermarket car parks for advertising purposes?
Not that easy anyway. I've removed the actual number plate from one of my (several) motor vehicles (and this was a road-legal plate, which they aren't all) and bicycled in and out of my local ANPR-infested supermarket brandishing it in front and behind of me as appropriate and had not a nibble.Bloody incompetent scum, will not even issue a fake fine when you want them to.
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