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Number Plates Character spacing
The spacing between characters in the registration number displayed on a vehicle's number plates has always been defined, howeve until 2001 it was rarely enforced.
In 2001 a new act was passed covering vehicle crime and in it the regulations governing number plates was tightened up to remove any loopholes and define specifications and layout of registration plates.
Spacing of characters on number plates is defined as 11mm between characters,33mm between the two groups of characters,top,side and bottom margins of 11mm.These regulations are designed to outlaw mis-spaced registration numbers which had become common amongst buyers of private number plates.
What seems a harmless piece of fun to these drivers masks a greater problem. ANPRS is used more and more to police our country and one way around the cameras is to alter the number plates on the car, the cameras cannot differentiate between plates altered innocently to spell a name and those altered to confuse the cameras on purpose.
Number plates character spacing will be checked at the car's M.O.T. test along with other criteria,additionally car's with mis-spaced plates are very likely to be stopped after passing a mobile ANPRS site set up by police or DVLA.
Once stopped the car can be impounded, crushed, a fine of 1000 pound imposed and the registration number confiscated.
If you have any questions regarding any of the above , please contact us by email or telephone.
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