The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

• Citation: S.I. 2020/1276
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 8th December 2020.

Section 2 Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 are amended as follows.

Section 3 Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

In regulation 2 (interpretation: general), in the definition of the expression “registration plate” replace “16(3) and (4)” with “16(3), (4), (4A), (4B) and (4D)”.

Section 4 Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

In regulation 16—

(a) after paragraph (4) insert—

(4A) Subject to paragraph (4B), an eligible vehicle may display a plate or device which is green in colour.

(4B) The plate or other device referred to in paragraph (4A) must be—

(a) made from retroreflective material;

(b) colour Pantone 7481c or a colour match that is as close as possible to this colour;

(c) no less than forty millimetres and no more than fifty millimetres in width.

(4C) No other vehicle may display a plate or other device which is green in colour.

(4D) Subject to paragraphs (5) to (8) there may be displayed on a plate or other device referred to in (4A) an arrangement of letters corresponding with one of the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (9) and an emblem corresponding with one of the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (10).

(b) in paragraph (5) after “The” insert “plate or other device, ” and after “(4)” insert “, (4A), (4B) and (4D)”;

(c) after paragraph (10) insert—

(11) In this regulation—

(a) an “eligible vehicle” means a vehicle to which these regulations apply and which cannot produce any tailpipe emissions;

(b) where the eligible vehicle is towing a trailer, paragraphs (4A), (4B), and (4D) may also apply to the plate or other device fixed to that trailer.