Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

PART VI EXEMPTIONS

Exemptions from Article 69(2) of the 1995 Order

26.  The provisions of Article 69(2) of the 1995 Order do not apply to the use of a vehicle for any of the following purposes –

(a) the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement for, or of bringing it away from, or being used in the course of or in connection with any examination;

(b) where a goods vehicle test certificate is refused on an examination –

(i) the purpose of delivering it by previous arrangement at, or bringing it away from, a place where work is to be or has been done on it to remedy the defects on the grounds of which the certificate was refused; or

(ii) the purpose of delivering it, by towing it, to a place where it is to be broken up;

(c) when unladen, the purpose of being driven under a trade licence issued under section 12 of the 1994 Act;

(d) the purpose of being driven or drawn where it has been imported into Northern Ireland after arrival in Northern Ireland on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Northern Ireland to a place where it is to be kept by the person importing the vehicle or by any other person on whose behalf the vehicle has been imported, and in this paragraph the reference to a vehicle being imported into Northern Ireland is a reference, in the case of a vehicle which has been so imported more than once, to the first such importation, and in determining for the purposes of this paragraph when a vehicle was first so imported any such importation as is referred to in paragraph 25 of Schedule 2 shall be disregarded;

(e) any purpose for which it is authorised to be used on roads by an order under Article 60 of the 1995 Order;

(f) any purpose connected with its seizure or detention by a constable;

(g) any purpose connected with its removal, detention, seizure, condemnation or forfeiture under any provision in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(1);

(h) the purpose of removing it in pursuance of an order made under Article 15(1) of the 1997 Order or removing it under Articles 47, 48 or 49 of that Order or Article 30 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(2).

Revocation

27.  The Regulations specified in Schedule 6 are hereby revoked.

(1)

1979 c. 2

(2)

S.I. 1978/1049 (N.I. 19)