35Other offences concerning number plates

35. Other offences concerning number plates

A person must not —

(a) wilfully alter or deface any number plate issued under this Act; or

(b) cause or permit a number plate issued under this Act to be affixed to a vehicle other than the vehicle for which that number plate was issued; or

(c) being the person in whose name a vehicle was registered under this Act, but for which the registration has expired and not been renewed for a period exceeding 15 days, fail to deliver up the number plate issued under this Act in respect of the vehicle; or

(d) use on any vehicle a number plate not issued in respect of that vehicle, or any counterfeit or false number plate or any thing apparently intended to resemble or pass for a number plate.

[Section 35 amended: No. 39 of 2000 s. 56; No. 8 of 2025 s. 14 and 15.]