The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

4.  In regulation 16—

(a) after paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A) Subject to paragraph (4B), an eligible vehicle may display a plate or device which is green in colour.

(4B) The plate or other device referred to in paragraph (4A) must be—

(a) made from retroreflective material;

(b) colour Pantone 7481c(1) or a colour match that is as close as possible to this colour;

(c) no less than forty millimetres and no more than fifty millimetres in width.

(4C) No other vehicle may display a plate or other device which is green in colour.

(4D) Subject to paragraphs (5) to (8) there may be displayed on a plate or other device referred to in (4A) an arrangement of letters corresponding with one of the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (9) and an emblem corresponding with one of the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (10).”;

(b) in paragraph (5) after “The” insert “plate or other device, ” and after “(4)” insert “, (4A), (4B) and (4D)”;

(c) after paragraph (10) insert—

“(11) In this regulation—

(a) an “eligible vehicle” means a vehicle to which these regulations apply and which cannot produce any tailpipe emissions;

(b) where the eligible vehicle is towing a trailer, paragraphs (4A), (4B), and (4D) may also apply to the plate or other device fixed to that trailer.”.

(1)

Further information and a guide to the colour match for Pantone 7481c can be found on the Pantone website at https://store.pantone.com/uk/en/colorfinder/index/acfproduct/code/7481+C.