Car pulled by police no MOT

[-gem-]

A friend of mine was pulled by the police by taking a left turn where she shouldn't have, they asked her to produce at a local police station. Her MOT is out by 2 months. What action will be taken?
Gemma

[Ethel]

�60 fine

[-gem-]

Thank you Ethel. Is that a criminal conviction or points?

[Ethel]

It's not points, it's a fine usually by way of fixed penalty

[notmuchtime]

Actually it is the offence of driving without documents and can be a summons to court with a fine and points.
The fact it is out of date would be a failure to produce the document plus there would be court fees, for the hearing at court, if it went there- this from a police officer

[Lakitu]

I never keep any of my documents in my car, so if I'm stopped I'm going to be fined for not storing them there even though it's more sensible not to?

[kempie]

Document offences are non-endorseable.

[New Judge]

- And being without an MoT certificate entirely is similarly non-endorseable.

- And if you do not have one you cannot be charged with failing to produce. (One cannot produce what one does not have).

[Ethel]

It is not driving without documents - there is no such offence.

It is s.47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988

s. 47.
Obligatory test certificates.
� (1) A person who uses on a road at any time, or causes or permits to be so used, a motor vehicle to which this section applies, and as respects which no test certificate has been issued within the appropriate period before that time, is guilty of an offence.