The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

Re-test procedure, and issue of test certificates (or notices of refusal)

27.—(1) Where a vehicle is submitted for a re-test at a vehicle testing station under regulation 15(2) or (3), a goods vehicle examiner shall in carrying out the test be under an obligation only to examine the vehicle for the purpose of ascertaining whether it complies with the particular items of the prescribed construction and use requirements with which it was shown in the last notice of a refusal of a test certificate not to comply.

(2) Where a goods vehicle examiner finds that the vehicle complies with the particular items of the prescribed construction and use requirements mentioned in paragraph (1) and has no reason to believe that the other prescribed construction and use requirements are not complied with in relation to the vehicle, there shall be issued a goods vehicle test certificate.

(3) Where a goods vehicle examiner does not find that the vehicle complies with the particular items of the prescribed construction and use requirements mentioned in paragraph (1) or finds that any other prescribed construction and use requirement is not complied with in relation to the vehicle, there shall be issued a notice of the refusal of a test certificate.

(4) Where a vehicle is submitted for a re-test at a vehicle testing station under regulation 15(4), a goods vehicle examiner shall arrange for the vehicle to undergo a goods vehicle test, and when that test has been completed there shall be issued—

(a) where the vehicle is found to comply with the prescribed construction and use requirements, a goods vehicle test certificate;

(b) where the vehicle is found not to comply with the prescribed construction and use requirements, a notice of the refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate.