Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994
Section 29 of VERA provided a penalty for using or keeping unlicensed vehicle.
(1) If a person uses, or keeps, a vehicle which is unlicensed he is guilty of an offence.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) a vehicle is unlicensed if no vehicle licence or trade licence is in force for or in respect of the vehicle.
Section 33 (1) of VERA provides that a person is guilty of an offence if –
(a) he uses, or keeps, on a public road a vehicle in respect of which vehicle excise duty is chargeable, and
(b) there is not fixed to and exhibited on the vehicle in the manner prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State a licence for, or in respect of, the vehicle which is for the time being in force.
Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002
Regulation 6 (4) of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (“RVRs”) states:
The licence shall be exhibited on the vehicle –
(c) in the case of any vehicle fitted with a glass windscreen in front of the driver extending across the vehicle to its near side, on or adjacent to the near side of the windscreen.
Regulation 6 (5) states:
In each case referred to in paragraph (4), the licence shall be so exhibited that all the particulars on the licence are clearly visible in daylight from the near side of the road.