Penalty points for no registration plate

bazz26 · 30-11-2017 08:31PM

bucketybuck · 30-11-2017 09:31PM

LorcanJ wrote: »

wouldnt let me explain and instead he insinuated I was trying to lie

Which isn't fair, because nobody ever lies to the guards.

riemann · 01-12-2017 12:15AM

LorcanJ wrote: »

Hi,

The front Registration plate fell off my car while driving to Galway a day after the recent storms and I was stopped the next day (a Sunday) in the middle of Connemara by a Garda who issued me an on the spot penalty point for the offence. I have evidence from a toll bridge that the reg plate was on the car earlier in the week and I fixed it the next day, but the local guard was obnoxious and wouldnt listen to me. Now I want to take it to court and object, mostly becuase his treatment was unfair.
Has anybody experienced something similar or would you recommend I suck this up and just pay?

Thanks

This is one of the many occasions where there is various outcomes depending on the attitude of the Garda and person stopped.

Are you a young male with an attitude? Is your car "modified"? I'm guessing as much. Although the Guard could just have been a dick.
Always found Guards very pleasant and reasonable whenever I've been stopped.

seamus · 01-12-2017 10:32AM

OP, apply for a cancellation of the notice on a Category A1 basis - Detection issue/Material Error.

The basis of the claim is that your vehicle is not required to carry an authorisation plate and therefore the notice is invalid.

Chances are your cancellation request will be rejected, bring it to court, let the Garda make a fool of himself.

Dravokivich · 01-12-2017 11:39AM

irelandrover wrote: »

I'd assume no-one drives the wrong way down a motorway on purpose. Therefore the threat of penalty points would not prevent it.

People speed on purpose and the threat of penalty points could prevent them.

The lack of awareness required to drive the wrong way down a motorway is concerning. All the ramps have warning signs. It shouldn't be a simple mistake, as you make it sound. Especially when people tend to comment on drivers who've missed an exit and turned around / reversed against traffic. They should be taken off the road for doing something like that.

elperello · 01-12-2017 11:40AM

What is the prescribed penalty for not having a front number plate?

zilog_jones · 01-12-2017 11:53AM

So are we supposed to carry spare number plates at all times in case one falls off on a Sunday? :rolleyes::)

GM228 · 01-12-2017 11:56AM

elperello wrote: »

What is the prescribed penalty for not having a front number plate?

A fine up to €5000 on conviction.

seamus · 01-12-2017 12:46PM

zilog_jones wrote: »

So are we supposed to carry spare number plates at all times in case one falls off on a Sunday? :rolleyes::)

No, but you have an obligation to ensure the roadworthiness of your vehicle, this would include ensuring that your number plates are securely fixed to the vehicle.

"It blew off in a storm" isn't plausible, and ultimately no excuse, even if it did fall off while driving.

bucketybuck · 01-12-2017 12:55PM

zilog_jones wrote: »

So are we supposed to carry spare number plates at all times in case one falls off on a Sunday? :rolleyes::)

Why do people keep coming out with these types of statements?

You do realise that the number plate that fell off on a Sunday is indistinguishable from the number plate that was removed a month ago so that some chancer could avoid the M50 toll? Or that fell off three months ago and the clueless driver never bothered their hole replacing it?

The offence cannot be "Failure to display a number plate except in cases where it only happened an hour ago and this particular driver is the only honest man in Ireland". Its just "failure to display a number plate", and rightly so.

zilog_jones · 01-12-2017 02:07PM

bucketybuck wrote: »

Why do people keep coming out with these types of statements?

If I was being serious I wouldn't have ended the statement with ":rolleyes::)"

selectamatic · 01-12-2017 07:35PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Hi Lorcan. Just wondering car do you drive and is it standard.

Tbf colm the op could be driving this:

Or this:

He still shouldn't have got notice of 3 points for not having a front registration plate.

DaveyDave · 02-12-2017 08:07AM

If people are debating whether a reg plate is an offence or not then it's possible the Garda is wrong too. I was going through a checkpoint once and the Garda said I needed an accompanying driver on N plates. He was nice about it but it just goes to show even the traffic corps can be wrong about these things.

In my experience the Gardai are generally polite and friendly. It's possible he was power tripping and thinks he's always right or you possibly got off on the wrong foot though.

pa990 · 02-12-2017 12:54PM

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2000/si/224/made/en/print

Penalty points for no registration plate

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