Testing, Plating & Prohibitions

This chapter covers the process of the four separate testing regimes: the HGV testing scheme, roadworthiness enforcement and prohibitions, MOT testing of light vehicles and the vehicle defect rectification scheme.

Updates for 2025:

  • Digital annual test certificates.

  • Alternatively fuelled vehicles exceeding 3.5t highlighted.

  • Abandoned test description added.

 

Download the testing, plating and prohibitions chapter of the Yearbook of Road Transport Law