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 2023:
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Delayed Defect Concession.
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Online MOT check service.
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MOT test booking revised.
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Vehicles laden/unlden for annual test.
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Local appeal process.
Download the testing, plating and prohibitions chapter of the Yearbook of Road Transport Law
Contents:
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Types of test.
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HGV testing scheme.
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Initial testing.
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Annual testing.
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Testing facilities.
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Booking the test at authorised testing facilities.
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Booking the test at DVSA testing facilities.
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Submitting the vehicle.
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Refusal to test.
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Vehicles unladen or laden.
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Test certificate.
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Retests.
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Appeals
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Local appeals.
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Check MOT History.
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Certificate of temporary exemption.
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Fees.
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Plating.
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Manufacturer’s plating.
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Ministry plating.
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Ministry plating procedures.
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Articulated vehicles.
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Downplating without vehicle modification.
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Notifiable alterations.
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Enforcement.
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Exemptions from testing and plating.
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Roadworthiness enforcement and prohibitions.
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Prohibition system.
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Delayed Defect Concession.
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Immediate and delayed prohibitions.
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Removal of prohibitions.
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Appeals.
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Immobilisation.
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Prohibitions issued to non-UK vehicles.
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MOT testing of light vehicles.
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Components tested.
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Retests.
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Appeals.
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Class VII tests.
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Vehicle defect rectification scheme.
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