Black
and silver number plates
Chris Hunt Cooke provides an interesting update on number plates.
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Posted: 201210 |
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Number
Plate Styles
When the start
date for the Historic class was unfrozen in 2015, and became
a rolling 40 years, it was overlooked that the regulations for
number plates had linked the validity of the old style black
and silver plates to the vehicle qualifying for the Historic
tax class. This meant that it rolled forward every year, despite
the law previously requiring all vehicles first registered after
1st January 1973 to only display the yellow and white number
plates with black characters.
As this was never the intention, the DVLA have sought to rectify
this through a legal correction which will shortly be implemented.
The change seeks to prevent any vehicle constructed after 1st
January 1980 from the ability to display the black and silver
number plate despite being recorded in the DVLA’s Historic
tax class. Those vehicles with a construction date prior to
1st January 1980 will continue to be able to legally display
black and silver number plates to avoid any undue costs of replacement.
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Euro symbol
on number plates goes
Also, from 1st January 2021 it will no longer be permissible
to fix a new number plate displaying a Euro symbol. Number
plates already fixed to vehicles are unaffected. The DVLA
will also be introducing a new British Standard for number
plates produced from 1st September 2021 which will mean all
current style number plates that are first fixed to a vehicle
from that date must meet the technical requirements contained
in that standard.
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