{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2742",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Display of general registration mark of holder of a trade licence",
  "text": "(1) Where a vehicle is in use under a trade licence the general registration mark assigned to the holder of a trade licence shall be displayed on the vehicle in the manner specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The trade plates issued by the Secretary of State shall be fixed to and displayed on the vehicle in such a manner that, if the general registration mark assigned to the holder were a registration mark assigned to the vehicle, the provisions of regulations 5 and 6 of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 (the “2001 Regulations”) would be complied with, notwithstanding the vehicle may not have been first registered on or after the relevant date, as defined in regulation 2(1) of the 2001 Regulations, or it is a works truck (as defined by paragraph 4(6) of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act) or an agricultural machine (as defined by regulation 2(1) of the 2001 Regulations) or a road roller.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 42(3)(4) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of The Vehicle Excise and Registration (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2358), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 14(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 42 heading substituted (1.10.2014) by The Vehicle Excise and Registration (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2358), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/561 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2742/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:59.749373+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."
}