Brexit driving rules for UK cars, we must buy new stickers
Sept 9, 2021 14:12:51 GMT 1
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Post by beejay on Sept 9, 2021 14:12:51 GMT 1
From September 28th, 2021, all cars registered in the UK will require a ‘UK’ sticker with a Union Jack flag to be clearly displayed on the vehicle.
This sticker will replace the previously required ‘GB’ sticker and is ‘part of a wider move towards using the UK signifier across government’ says a British Department for Transport spokesman.
The sticker is required for all vehicles registered in the UK unless your number plate already has a UK identifier with the Union Jack. Identifying stickers, along with headlight correctors, are a legal requirement of all UK-registered cars being driven anywhere in the EU.
Another great Brexit bonus, they just keep on coming………
The embarrassment of having to have an onion jack flag on our car is too much to bare……
ALL cars registered in the UK DO NOT require 'UK with Union flag' on the registration plate but if a national identifying letter is used it can be one of the various Scottish, Welsh, and English versions with an appropriate flag.
UK registered cars used abroad require an identifying national letter under several United Nations conventions not the EU. This can be incorporated into the registration plate in the Euro format or a separate sticker and is/was GB.
The UK government has unilaterally declared in a letter that 'UK' should replace 'GB' and this will apply to Euro style plates fitted after 28/09/21. Existing plates can continue to be used abroad but the Euro star circle should be removed or covered. It appears that, so far, there has been no response to the declaration. As usual the UK suppliers of registration plates will provide whatever you need.
As for embarrassment, if your car is UK registered it should have GB or UK so why not the appropriate flag?
There is no way that any western European country is likely to enforce this change although Spain has declared that a separate GB sticker will be mandatory having, it seems missed or ignored, the declared change.