{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1276",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "In regulation 16—\n(a) after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) Subject to paragraph (4B), an eligible vehicle may display a plate or device which is green in colour.\n(4B) The plate or other device referred to in paragraph (4A) must be—\n(a) made from retroreflective material;\n(b) colour Pantone 7481c or a colour match that is as close as possible to this colour;\n(c) no less than forty millimetres and no more than fifty millimetres in width.\n(4C) No other vehicle may display a plate or other device which is green in colour.\n(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).”;\n(b) in paragraph (5) after “The” insert “plate or other device, ” and after “(4)” insert “, (4A), (4B) and (4D)”;\n(c) after paragraph (10) insert—\n“(11) In this regulation—\n(a) an “eligible vehicle” means a vehicle to which these regulations apply and which cannot produce any tailpipe emissions;\n(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.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Further information and a guide to the colour match for Pantone 7481c can be found on the Pantone website at https://store.pantone.com/uk/en/colorfinder/index/acfproduct/code/7481+C."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1276/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:57.030388+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."
}