The Supreme court overturned the deprivation of driver’s rights for numbers on a magnetic framework

The Supreme Court of Russia canceled the decision to deprive a driver’s license for a year of a motorist from Novokuznetsk for using magnetic frames to fasten numbers, reports RAPSI.

Previously, lower courts considered that the magnetic mount allows you to quickly remove car license plates, and therefore can be used to hide them.

The Supreme Court pointed out that the current GOST does not establish requirements for the material of the manufacture of frames and does not prohibit the use of magnetic fasteners. At the same time, as noted in the court, the design should provide the possibility of identifying registration marks.

In the present case, magnetic frames were used only to attach numbers. They did not cover or distort letters, numbers and other elements of registration plates, nor did they allow them to be concealed or altered, the Supreme Court found.

The court overturned the decisions of the lower courts and stopped the proceedings.

Earlier, on August 8, the Supreme Court clarified that mounting a car license plate on a magnetic frame is not considered to be the use of a device to hide or change the number.

In response to the request of Deputy Yaroslav Nilov, the court explained that when considering such cases, it is necessary to find out whether a particular device allows you to hide or change the number or prevent its identification. At the same time, the very design of the frame or the method of attaching the number is not the basis for punishment, the court stressed.

"Any specific design or method of attaching a state registration plate does not per se apply to such devices," the letter said.