car tax tuns out whilst driving on holiday.

interstellaflyer

Chopper_Read wrote: »

It's still possible you'd get a ticket.

Yeah, the way I understand it, the DVLA allow you 5 days, however the offence of failing to display still exists so a pedantic traffic warden can report you, however I think you would be very unlucky to be booked in the first few hours.

Gloomendoom

Very unlucky. I drove around with an expired tax disk for five months. I only realised, quite by chance, after I found the new one at the back of a drawer.

Quentin

interstellaflyer wrote: »

...... however I think you would be very unlucky to be booked in the first few hours.

Here's a tale of woe about someone who got a failure to display ticket at 8.00 am on the first of the month:

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?218797-Fixed-Penalty-Notice-Failure-To-Display-Tax-Disc

andygb

Chopper_Read wrote: »

It's still possible you'd get a ticket.

However the ticket would not be enforceable as the driver was legally correct.

Joe_Horner

victor2 wrote: »

As above.
Technically you should display both, so that you are always showing a valid tax disc.

Although, if you drive the car like that, then (technically) you're driving with an obscured windscreen.

There's a specific exemption for a valid tax disk or similar (parking permits etc) but one or other of the disks won't be "valid" at any one time, so is just an obstruction as far as the rules are concerned.

Again, you'd need to have really upset someone to have action taken for it!

Chopper_Read

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Although, if you drive the car like that, then (technically) you're driving with an obscured windscreen.

There's a specific exemption for a valid tax disk or similar (parking permits etc) but one or other of the disks won't be "valid" at any one time, so is just an obstruction as far as the rules are concerned.

Again, you'd need to have really upset someone to have action taken for it!

You got a link to this then? Cause it ain't no difference to having an operators licence.

victor2

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Although, if you drive the car like that, then (technically) you're driving with an obscured windscreen.

There's a specific exemption for a valid tax disk or similar (parking permits etc) but one or other of the disks won't be "valid" at any one time, so is just an obstruction as far as the rules are concerned.

Again, you'd need to have really upset someone to have action taken for it!

So, just how would you really upset a traffic warden? :rotfl:

thenudeone

Chopper_Read wrote: »

It's still possible you'd get a ticket.

...which would be voided, because you have a statutory exemption from displaying a disc.

The 5 days grace is written into law. It's not a guideline or concession which is subject to someone's agreement.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/9/section/147

You simply CANNOT be convicted of the offence of failing to display a tax disc if you meet the relevant criteria.

thenudeone

interstellaflyer wrote: »

, the DVLA allow you 5 days, however the offence of failing to display still exists

No it doesn't. see link above.

agrinnall

Chopper_Read wrote: »

So what's he driving then?

Who says he's driving anything? He's on holiday, his car is on the road at home, with a soon to expire tax disc.