New laws for number plate suppliers
Last year, laws were introduced that made it an offence for number plates suppliers to supply plates that didn’t meet the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 which gave the DVLA new powers to directly prosecute suppliers that were engaged in illegal dealings. Successful prosecutions have already been made and there are others that are currently under investigation.
These laws are important as they are targeted specifically at the source of these plates, rather than attempting to find those selling the cars and imprisoning them. In the former scenario, the supply of copied plates is cut off, in the latter, new criminals can simply take the place of the old, filling a gap in the market.
