MS30 : play street offences

Checked 22 July 2026 · How we check our figures

What it means

MS30 is the table's smallest number: the only 2-point code anywhere on the list, for driving in breach of a play street order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. The provision descends from the street-games era, streets closed to traffic so children could use them, and a handful of orders survive. Its rarity is the point of knowing it: an MS30 on a record is a genuine curiosity, and the 2 points still count towards totting like any others.

Points and how long it stays

2 points.

On the licence for 4 years from the date of the offence.

The MS codes are the register's junk drawer, offences that share a letter rather than a statute: dangerous parking (MS10, s. 22 RTA 1988), unlawful pillions (MS20, s. 23), the street-games relic MS30 with the table's only 2 points, racing on the highway (MS50, s. 12, where the ban is obligatory), the eyesight pair MS70 and MS80 under s. 96, the residual box MS60, and the family's heavyweight MS90, failing to name the driver, 6 points and a page of its own. Most of the family runs flat 3s on the 4-year offence clock (gov.uk, checked 2026-07-22), which makes it easy to underestimate: the drawer's contents count towards totting exactly like everything else. The arithmetic sits in the penalty points calculator at /fines/penalty-points.

The usual route

Enforcement is a rarity: where it happens at all it is an officer's decision on the spot, and most forces will never write one.

If it goes to court

In court the fine is income-banded at the lower bands; mechanics in the fine bands guide.

Authority

gov.uk, Penalty points (endorsements), checked 2026-07-22

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