{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/561",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Layout of marks",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a registration mark of a description specified in column (1) of Table A must be laid out on the registration plate in conformity with one of the diagrams specified in relation to that description in column (2) of Table A.\n(2) A mark displayed on a motor cycle may not be laid out in conformity with diagram 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a or 9a.\n(3) A mark may not be laid out in conformity with diagram 2c, 3c, 4b or 7b if it is displayed on—\n(a) a registration plate fixed to a vehicle first registered on or after 1st September 2001, or\n(b) a new registration plate fixed to a vehicle on or after 1st September 2001 to replace a plate previously fixed thereto (except where the vehicle was first registered before 1st January 1973).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:10.069756+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."
}