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MS60 : offences not covered by other codes (including offences relating to breach of requirements as to control of vehicle)
Checked 22 July 2026 · How we check our figures
What it means
MS60 is the register's residual box, and its bracket is the interesting part: breaches of the control-of-vehicle requirements land here when they are not the phone case, which has its own code at CU80. On a record it says almost nothing, so the certificate of conviction is where its facts live, the same rule TS70 and AC30 teach. Anyone reading an MS60, an insurer included, learns only the flat 3 and the family letter.
Points and how long it stays
3 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
Where it arises at the roadside it follows the family's fixed penalty pattern (gov.uk, checked 2026-07-22); the code itself is a recording label rather than a route.
If it goes to court
In court the fine is income-banded at the lower bands; mechanics in the fine bands guide.
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Authority
gov.uk, Penalty points (endorsements), checked 2026-07-22