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I received a pulling over from the police when riding my R1. Decent copper, ignored the iridium visor and scuffed knee sliders, but he gave my bike a bit of a going over. He told me it was well maintained and he was pleased to see me in full leathers. All very nice.
Then he gets his pad out, asks me to produce my licence and insurance, which I can and then hands me a further notice, telling me to get my bike down to an MOT station (my bike is less than a year old) who will certify that I have replaced my "Not for Road Use" cans and my pretty small, one line number plate. I did have a mildly offensive Fast Bikes Sticker on it. Fair enough, I thought.
Get the original pipes back on, and re bolt the number plate back on, but some scrote saw me working on my bike because the day after I had changed the pipes and plate my garage had an R1 shaped gap where some shit had stolen my bike.
I have now got a summons for illegal pipes and plates, and I am now mighty pissed off. What do I do?
What you were given was a "Rectification notice". Tell the prosecuting authorities what has happened, in writing and back it up with the police report number of the theft and correspondence with your own insurers.
If matters go to court take the "Not for Road Use Pipes" with you as well as the offending plate as evidence that you had changed them.
The offences you have been summonsed for were the original offences. There is no offence of "Failing to rectify" but the police officer did the decent thing and gave you a rectification notice which you tried to comply with.
I have dealt with a few cases like this and the Magistrates are most likely to let you off with a discharge. If you provide the prosecution with evidence of what happened the prosecution may well drop the charge.