Part 2: Trailers Policy Background Section 18: Offences
Section 18 allows the Secretary of State through regulations to create a range of offences associated with the trailer registration scheme, including keeping or using an unregistered or incorrectly registered trailer on a road. The offences may also relate to the breach of a specified provision of any regulations made under sections 13-17, the improper display of registration marks, expired registration documents, the provision of false or misleading information and/or documents and the obstructing of inspections/pretending to be entitled to carry out an inspection. Any such offences would be non-imprisonable and punishable with a fine not exceeding level 3 (currently £1,000) on the standard scale.
	Persons may be required, by regulations, to provide information about the identity of a person alleged to have committed an offence created under the specified paragraphs of subsection (1). Regulations may provide for it to be an offence to fail to do so (subsection (3)). The regulations may also allow for any admissions so provided to be admitted in court as evidence.