{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trailer-registration-regulations-2018/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trailer-registration-regulations-2018/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111173046",
  "legislation_title": "The Trailer Registration Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trailer-registration-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Display of registration marks",
  "text": "(1) The registered keeper or the user of a registered trailer must not use it on a road, or cause or permit it to be so used, unless a registration plate (displaying its assigned registration mark) is fixed on the trailer in compliance with this regulation.\n(2) A registration plate is fixed on a trailer in compliance with this regulation only if—\n(a) the specification of the registration mark displayed upon it is in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2;\n(b) the specification of the registration plate is in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 2; and\n(c) the registration plate is fixed to the trailer in accordance with regulation 17.\n(3) A person who keeps a trailer or a user of a trailer must not use it on a road, or cause or permit it to be so used, with a plate fixed on the trailer that displays a mark which is—\n(a) consistent with the specification of a registration mark in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2; and\n(b) not assigned to that trailer by the Secretary of State under regulation 15.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to a registered trailer if a person is not recorded in the register as the person who keeps the trailer at the time of an alleged offence under regulation 19(1)(g).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Registration plate” is defined in section 15(3) of the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111173046/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:56.814114+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}