The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1991

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulations 9 and 10 on 1st January 1992;

(b) for the purposes of regulation 11 on 1st January 1993;

(c) for all other purposes, on 1st November 1991.

2.  Introduction

The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981(1) shall be further amended in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations.

Amendments coming into force on 1st November 1991

3.  In regulation 11(1)(a) there shall be omitted the words “, inspection reports, inspection cards”.

4.  In regulation 13—

(a) the word “and” immediately following paragraph (d) shall be omitted;

(b) after paragraph (e) there shall be added the word “and”; and

(c) at the end there shall be added—

“(f) in the case of a Class VI vehicle—

(i) the vehicle is not submitted for examination at the time and date fixed for the examination; or

(ii) the driver of the vehicle is requested to remain in it or its vicinity throughout the examination, to drive it, to operate its controls, to remove or refit its panels or to open or close its doors and he declines to do so.”.

5.  In regulation 15—

(a) in paragraph (1)(b) there shall be inserted after “test certificate” the word “stating the grounds thereof”; and

(b) in paragraph (3)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) the words from “and shall contain” to the end shall be omitted; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) the words from “and shall contain” to the end shall be omitted.

6.  In regulation 18(6)(a) for the words “and contain the same particulars as are appropriate” there shall be substituted “as is appropriate”.

7.  In regulation 20—

(a) in paragraph (5) “, (3)(b)” shall be omitted; and

(b) in paragraph (7) for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted—

“(a) the vehicle is re-examined before the end of the next day following an earlier examination of it being a day on which the Secretary of State will accept vehicles for examinination;

(b) the person who re-examines the vehicle on behalf of the Secretary of State was already at the premises at which the re-examination occurs for the purpose of carrying out an examination on another vehicle;”.

8.  In regulation 23—

(a) in paragraph (1)(b)—

(i) for “the Goods Vehicle Centre (PSV Section)” there shall be substituted “the PSV Centre”; and

(ii) at the end there shall be added “or at any goods vehicle testing station”; and

(b) in paragraph (2) in the proviso—

(i) the words “either the serial number of the original certificate or” shall be omitted; and

(ii) for “paragraph (1)(d)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (1)(a)(iv)”.

Amendments coming into force on 1st January 1992

9.  For regulation 4(2) there shall be substituted—

“(2) The prescribed statutory requirements for the purposes of section 45(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 are in relation to any vehicle in a Class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table the requirements specified in that item in column 3 of the Table, and in these Regulations those requirements are referred to as “the prescribed statutory requirements”.

TABLE

(1) Item	(2) Class	(3) Requirements
1	I and II	Paragraph 1 of Schedule 2
2	III	Paragraph 2 of Schedule 2
3	IV	Paragraph 3 of Schedule 2
4	V	Paragraph 4 of Schedule 2
5	VI	Paragraph 5 of Schedule 2
6	VII	Paragraph 6 of Schedule 2”

10.  For Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment to Schedule 2 coming into force on 1st January 1993

11.  For Schedule 2 as substituted by regulation 10 above there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Christopher Chope

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

7th October 1991