Testing, Plating & Prohibitions

Types of test.
HGV testing scheme.
- It is an offence to operate a vehicle without a valid test certificate when one is required.
- Initial testing.
- Annual testing.
- Booking the test.
- Booking commercial vehicle tests online.
- Single vehicle service.
- Multiple vehicle service.
- Designated Premises (DPs) and Authorised Testing Facilities (ATFs).
- Block bookings.
- Submitting the vehicle.
- Refusal to test.
- Test stations.
- Vehicles unladen or laden.
- Test certificate and discs.
- Retests.
- Appeals.
  - Step 1.
  - Step 2.
  - Step 3.
- Certificate of temporary exemption.
- Fees.
  - Motor vehicles.
  - Trailers.
  - TIR.
  - ADR (excluding statutory test fee).
  - Low Emissions Certificate.
  - ATF pit fee cap.
Plating.
- Manufacturer’s plating.
- Ministry plating.
- Ministry plating procedures.
- Articulated vehicles.
- Downplating without vehicle modification.
- Notifiable alterations.
- Enforcement.
- Exemptions from testing and plating.
Roadworthiness enforcement and prohibitions.
- Prohibition system.
- Immediate and delayed prohibitions.
- Removal of prohibitions.
- Appeals.
- Immobilisation.
MOT testing of light vehicles.
- Components tested.
- Retests.
- Appeals.
- Class VII tests.
Vehicle defect rectification scheme.