FarkinNortherner, is there a URL where a Septic such as myself could view this proposed law?

From teh bill:

The Secretary of State shall establish, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, and maintain a register of off-road bikes and their keepers, to be administered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

From the FA:

the DVLA in Swansea insists that a registration mark can only be issued to an RTA-compliant vehicle.

I see what the Telegraph did there.

The proposed law does not appear to require a "registration mark", rather it requires that there be a "a register of off-road bikes and their keepers" maintained by the Secretary of State. It implies that this registry is separate from the registry of road-going vehicles. Now, I am wholly ignorant of the structure of the English government, but assuming for the moment that the SoS was able to deligate this registry to the DVLA, and the DVLA refused to make an entry to this registry based on the RTA-compliance of the bike, than the DVLA would appear to be failing the SoS on point 21a-2, and by extension, the SoS would be the one not in compliance with the law.

OTOH, here in the US bureaucratic measures like this have been taken as a way to outmaneuver those pesky "laws" and that darn "constitution". This has been in the form: "You have the legal right to do or own 'X', but you have to pay a tax, and we won't accept the tax payment, so you can't do/own it", for example. Is this sort of thing common in the UK?

And furthermore, I see nothing requiring a license plate. The Telegraph is Pig Ignorant. But it's Mr Stringer's fault... You see, the conversation with The Tele could have gone like this:

Tele: "Blah Blah Blah Confiscation Blah DVLA Blah"

Mr Stringer: "No, a seperate registry, no RTA-compliance, no license plate."

Tele: "Oh, I see. Well, I'll just scrap this polemic and run a picture of a bunny with a pancake on it's head in it's place."

/wholly ignorant about the UK press, too.