{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Fixing of registration plates: vehicles registered before the relevant date",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to vehicles, other than works trucks, road rollers and agricultural machines, first registered before the relevant date.\n(2) Except as provided in paragraph (4), a registration plate must be fixed in the manner required by paragraph (3) on—\n(a) the front of the vehicle, and\n(b) the rear of—\n(i) the vehicle or,\n(ii) where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer or,\n(iii) where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.\n(3) This paragraph requires each plate to be fixed—\n(a) in a vertical position or, where that is not possible, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable, and\n(b) in such a position that in normal daylight the characters of the registration mark are easily distinguishable, in the case of a plate fixed on the front of the vehicle, from in front of the vehicle and, in the case of a plate fixed on the rear of the vehicle or trailer, from behind the vehicle or trailer.\n(4) In the case of a motor cycle and a motor tricycle which does not have a body of a type which is characteristic of the body of a four-wheeled vehicle, a registration plate need not be fixed on the front of the vehicle.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}