Personally Yours Registrations :: Registered Number Plates Supplier No: 27154  

A Number Plates Supplier is someone whose business consists wholly or partly of supplying number plates i.e. finished plates that incorporate the registration mark of a vehicle registered with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. Manufacturers, distributors, assemblers, motor factors, motor dealers and retail outlets including on-line retailers could fall within the scope of the scheme provided that they supply the finished product. Motor dealers who refit their used vehicles for sale with replacement number plates would be classed as number plate suppliers.

If a business supplies only blank plates or other components or materials it will not be required to register. People who manufacture plates solely for their own use, rather than supply to third parties, are not within the scope of the legislation e.g. a fleet operator who assembles plates and fits them only to vehicles in his fleet. As he does not supply the plates, he is not a supplier for the purposes of the government legislation.

The Number Plate Suppliers Register came into force on 1 January 2003, but to allow businesses that are not registered to do so and to adjust their procedures, certain offences will not come into force until 1 March 2003. These offences are:-

1. Trading while unregistered 
2. Supplying an unregistered business
3. Failure to keep records
4. Failure to make the appropriate checks

The Police or Local Authorities will not have right of access to a business until 1 March 2003.

NB. It should be noted that the offence of selling 'counterfeit plates' (plates that do not conform to the specifications in the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 comes into force on 1 January 2003.

Why Introduce the Register?

 

In September 1998, the Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team [VCRAT] was established by the Home Office to develop and implement a strategy to meet the Government target to reduce vehicle crime by 30% by 2004. VCRAT recommended the introduction of a statutory registration scheme to control the supply of number plates. This is a government scheme and is designed to make it more difficult for thieves who put fake number plates on stolen vehicles to make them appear legitimate. It will be more difficult for criminals to get number plates because they will need to provide proof that they are entitled to them.

Who is exempt from the Register
 

• Number Plate Suppliers who only supply plates for newly registered vehicles for the first time in the UK.
  
   
• Number plate suppliers located entirely outside England and Wales.
  
   
• Manufacturers of number plate components who do not sell complete plates.
  
   
• Businesses that assemble or purchase plates for their own use or fit them to their own vehicles but do not supply them to anyone else. (Please note that a motor trader who fits new plates to used vehicles to sell on is not exempted because the plates are supplied along with the vehicle).

:: Registered Number Plate Supplier 27154 ::

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