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- The short answer is yes, you need a title for your trailer. The slightly longer answer is that it depends on your specific trailer and it depends where you live. If your trailer is extremely small or not being used on the road, there may be a chance it does not need to be titled.
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The UK has not traditionally required the registration of trailers. A trailer unit, whether. large commercial unit or smaller private use trailer, has only needed to display the plate...
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- Part 1Introduction
- Part 2Registration and Inspections
- Part 3Registration Marks and Plates
- Part 4Offences and Legal Proceedings
- Schedule 1Commencement
- Schedule 2Display of Registration Marks
- Schedule 3Amendments to Relevant Regulations
- Explanatory Note
Citation, commencement and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Trailer Registration Regulations 2018. (2) This regulation and Schedule 1 come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made and all other provisions come into force as prescribed in Schedule 1. (3) These Regulations apply to the United Kingdom, except for paragraph 1 of Schedule 3, which applies to Great Britain.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations— “registered” means registered by the Secretary of State under these Regulations; “the Convention” means the Convention on Road Traffic of 8th November 1968(3); “the permissible maximum mass” means the weight which the trailer(4) is designed or adapted not to exceed when in normal use, travelling on a road(5) and laden; “the register” means the register of trailers established and maintained by the Secretary of State; and “the registered keeper” means the person re...
Review
3.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time— (a)carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in these Regulations; and (b)publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review. (2) The first report must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the date on which these Regulations come into force for any purpose. (3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years. (4) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise...
Applications for registration
4.—(1) A person may apply to the Secretary of State for the registration(7) of a trailer kept or used on a road if the permissible maximum mass is more than 750 kilograms. (2) When making an application under paragraph (1), the applicant must provide— (a)payment of the registration fee of £26.00; (b)a declaration that the applicant is— (i)the person who keeps the trailer; or (ii)authorised by the person who keeps the trailer to make the application on their behalf; (c)a declaration that the p...
Unregistered trailers in 1968 Convention territories
5.—(1) It is an offence for a person to keep or use a trailer on a road that is— (a)being used on a journey that will involve, or has involved, entering a country outside the United Kingdom that is a contracting party to the Convention; and (b)not registered. (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if— (a)the trailer is kept by a person who is not— (i)resident in the United Kingdom (as defined in regulation 4(3)); (ii)a company formed and registered under the Companies Act 2006; or (iii)a holder of...
Notice of registration
6.—(1) Upon registering a trailer, the Secretary of State must issue an electronic notice of registration (“the notice”) to the applicant as soon as practicable. (2) In the notice, the Secretary of State must specify— (a)the name of the registered keeper; (b)the address of the registered keeper; (c)the chassis number of the trailer; and (d)the registration mark assigned to the trailer by the Secretary of State under regulation 15. (3) The Secretary of State may include such other particulars...
Assigning of registration marks
15.—(1) The Secretary of State, upon registering a trailer, must as soon as practicable assign a registration mark of one letter followed by seven numbers to the trailer. (2) The Secretary of State may— (a)assign a registration mark to a trailer to which another registration mark has previously been assigned; (b)withdraw a registration mark for the time being assigned to a trailer; or (c)re-assign to a trailer a registration mark previously assigned to it but subsequently withdrawn.
Display of registration marks
16.—(1) The registered keeper or the user of a registered trailer must not use it on a road, or cause or permit it to be so used, unless a registration plate(19) (displaying its assigned registration mark) is fixed on the trailer in compliance with this regulation. (2) A registration plate is fixed on a trailer in compliance with this regulation only if— (a)the specification of the registration mark displayed upon it is in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2; (b)the specification of the...
Fixing of registration plates
17.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the registration plate must be fixed— (a)on the rear of the trailer; (b)vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable; (c)in a position that is as far as reasonably practicable from the position of any plate that is required to be fixed to the trailer by the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001(20); and (d)in such a position that in normal daylight the cha...
Breaches of specified regulations
19.—(1) It is an offence for a person to contravene or fail to comply with— (a)regulation 7(5) (prohibition on using an expired registration document on a journey to or through a Convention territory); (b)regulation 8(5)(b), 9(6)(b) or 10(1)(b) or a requirement made under regulation 8(1)(c) or 14(3) (duty to destroy or surrender a registration document if required); (c)regulation 8(2) (duty to notify the Secretary of State of inaccuracies); (d)regulation 9(1) (duty to notify the Secretary of...
Incorrectly registered trailers
20.—(1) It is an offence for a person to keep or use a registered trailer on a road that is incorrectly registered. (2) In this regulation, a trailer is incorrectly registered if— (a)the register does not include all of the applicable information relating to the trailer that is specified in regulation 4(2)(d); or (b)the information relating to the trailer that is included in the register includes any incorrect information. (3) In any proceedings for this offence, it is a defence for the defen...
Obscuring of registration marks
21.—(1) It is an offence for a person to keep or use a registered trailer on a road if the registration mark is— (a)in any way obscured; or (b)caused or allowed to become not easily distinguishable. (2) In any proceedings for this offence, it is a defence for the defendant to prove that they took all reasonable steps to prevent the mark being obscured or becoming not easily distinguishable. (3) This regulation does not apply in relation to a registered trailer if a person is not recorded in t...
1.The following provisions come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made— (a)regulation 2; (b)regulation 3; (c)regulation 4; (d)regulation 6; (e)regulation 7 except for paragraph (5); (f)regulation 8(1) except for sub-paragraph (c); (g)regulation 11; (h)regulation 13; (i)regulation 14 except for the power of the Secre...
Registration mark - specification
1.—(1) A registration mark must be displayed as a group consisting of one letter and three numbers followed by a group consisting of four numbers (for example A123 4567) in this layout— (2) This font must be used to display a registration mark— (3) The characters used to display a registration mark must— (a)be 64 millimetres in height; (b)have a width of 44 millimetres, except for the character representing the number “1” and letter “I”, which must have a width of 10 millimetres; (c)have a st...
Registration plate - specification
2.—(1) A registration plate must have solid black characters on a white background. (2) The surface of a registration plate must not comprise or incorporate any design, pattern or texture, or be treated in any way which gives to any part of the plate the appearance of a design, pattern or texture. (3) A registration plate must not be treated in any other way which— (a)renders the characters of the registration mark less easily distinguishable to the eye; or (b)would prevent or impair the maki...
1.—(1) The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989(22) are amended as follows. (2) In regulation 11(2), after sub-paragraph (sa), insert— “(sb)reflected light from a registration plate fixed to the rear of a trailer displaying a registration mark assigned to that trailer in accordance with regulations made under section 15 of the Haulage Permits an...
(This note is not part of the Regulations) The Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018 conferred powers on the Secretary of State to establish a registration scheme for trailers kept or used on roads and create offences relating to that scheme. These Regulations— (a)specify the criteria and procedure for registration, the particulars to b...
The Trailer Registration (Amendment) Regulations 2021. The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 13 (1) and (2), 14 (1), 15 (3) and...
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