a It has recently been pointed out to me
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that our company's practice of displaying vehicle tax discs in the nearside cab rear quarter light is not legal. Can you tell me where they should be fitted and in what regulations the details may be found?
A The Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 para
graph 12 (4) indicates that a licence for a vehicle must be "exhibited on that vehicle in the prescribed manner". The prescribed manner is defined in The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971 paragraph 16 (3) (c) which states that in the case of a vehicle fitted with a glass windscreen in front of the driver extending across the vehicle to its nearside the licence shall be exhibited "on or adjacent to the nearside lower corner of the windscreen so that all particulars thereon are clearly visible by daylight from the nearside of the road".