Vehicle Registration Offences (Penalty Points) Bill

You can still have a relatively clean looking legal plate.

I've got no time for missing front plates and stupidly tiny plates that stand absolutely no chance at flying under the radar.
 
Good.

There's an increasing number of cars round here now with the illegal 3D plates, and/or tints on them. It's not difficult to use the plate your car came with and not be a ********.
 
I can't imagine too many people will be overly upset by higher punishments for not displaying or obscuring your numberplate.
 
Doesn’t hurt anyone if it’s default text imo, the old bill don’t bother dishing fines out anyway so they clearly aren’t that bothered either. I don’t really see the issue with it. Also the 3d gel plates are actually legal.
 
tom_e said:
I'm not sure this thread is going the way @kindai thought it would :D
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Just shows how short sighted people are because they think it will "teach em good".

The people this is supposed to be targeting (bikers with small rear plates) will still be just as unidentifiable and untraceable as they currently are.

However now people who may have been pulled for an oversight (a dirty plate for example in the middle of winter) and may have been given a stern warning or maybe 100 notes fine if they got a copper in a bad mood could be looking at upto £1000 fine and 3 points.

Points should be used when someone is a risk to other drivers, not as a punishment for minor transgressions.
 
kindai said:
Just shows how short sighted people are because they think it will "teach em good".

The people this is supposed to be targeting (bikers with small rear plates) will still be just as unidentifiable and untraceable as they currently are.

However now people who may have been pulled for an oversight (a dirty plate for example in the middle of winter) and may have been given a stern warning or maybe 100 notes fine if they got a copper in a bad mood could be looking at upto £1000 fine and 3 points.

Points should be used when someone is a risk to other drivers, not as a punishment for minor transgressions.
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That's the trouble with over-reach. Whilst it sounds like a great bill with no downsides as "only people doing something illegal" have to worry, what can and very probably will happen at some point is someone with a "dirty" plate (maybe they've been driving behind a tractor etc) will get done by an over officious officer, who can now issue points and a bigger fine for something that previously was a simple word or, worst case, a small fine.

History has taught us that "the intended" target of a law will never, ever, be the only person actually targeted.
 
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