Pulled by the police

[Fife_Fiesta]

Got stopped by the police the other night for having an "illegal number plate" there reason was the numbers were 10mm not the 14mm that they should be. Is there any special rules for import cars as I know skylines have the smaller number plate and they have no issue so I'm wondering what the rules are here in scotland

[pockrockgtti]

The Road Vehicles ( Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) regulations 2002 SI no. 2687 came into force in November 2002.

These amendment regulations introduce a new regulation 14A, making special provision in relation to the size and spacing of characters in the registration number of some imported vehicles. These regulations also include the display of motorcycle sizes for number plates on imported vehicles. The provision only applies to vehicles imported into the UK which do not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval, and are so constructed, that the area available for the fixing of the registration plate precludes the display on the plate of a registration number in conformity with the requirements of regulation 14.

Also contained is an amendment to regulation 3, to prohibit the use of a number plate on which the background is patterned or textured, or gives that appearance.

Where a vehicle has been allocated a UK registration number, the number plate must comply with the specification and standards laid out in the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001, as amended. Certain imported vehicles may be permitted to display numberplates with smaller characters if the vehicle does not have European Community Vehicle Type Approval and the vehicle's construction/design cannot accommodate standard size numberplates.

The dimensions for the smaller sized plate are:

each character in the registration number must be 64mm high

the width of each character of the number, other than the letter 'I' and the figure '1' must be 44mm

the width of every part of the stroke forming a character in a number must be 10mm

the spacing between any two characters within a group must be 10mm

the vertical spacing between groups of characters must be 5mm

the width of a margin between the number and the top and lateral sides of the numberplate must be not less than 5mm

the space between the bottom of the number/character and the bottom of the plate must not be less than 13mm, but within that space, the space between the bottom of the number and the top of the name and postcode of the person the plate was supplied must not be less than 5mm.

[Fife_Fiesta]

It passed an mot with this number plate so don't know why police class it as illegal tbh

[dai_starletN/A]

this has happened to me and i had to pay the fine oissed me off when it passed the MOT with that size plate.

[shorty]

If the number plate has a bs number in the bottom right hand side then tell em to piss off. The bs number means the plate conforms to british road legal standards and even bike plates and import plates have em. If the plates dont have a bs number then doest realy matter what else they do or dont have they arnt legal.