Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Regulations 10(2), 13(3) and (4) and 17(4)

SCHEDULE 1 FEES

PART I fee payable on application under regulations 10(2),13(3) or 17(4)

(1)	(2)
Class of Vehicle	Amount of Fee
3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight or under	£28·00
Over 3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight
(i) 2 axle rigid vehicle	£35·00
(ii) 3 axle rigid vehicle	£45·00
(iii) 4 axle rigid vehicle	£56·00
(iv) articulated vehicle having a 2 axle drawing vehicle	£39·00
(v) articulated vehicle having a 3 axle drawing vehicle	£51·00
Trailer –
(i) 1 axle trailer	£32·50
(ii) 2 axle trailer	£33·50
(iii) 3 axle trailer	£34·50

PART II fee payable on application under regulation 13(4)

(1)	(2)
Class of Vehicle	Amount of Fee
3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight or under	£17·50
Over 3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight	£17·50
Articulated vehicle	£18·50
Trailer	£18·50

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 2 Classes of Vehicles to which these Regulations do not apply

1.  Dual-purpose vehicles not constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated vehicle.

2.  Mobile cranes.

3.  Break-down vehicle.

4.  Engineering plant and plant, not being engineering plant, which is movable plant or equipment being a motor vehicle or trailer (not constructed primarily to carry a load) especially designed and constructed for the special purposes of engineering operations.

5.  Trailers being drying or mixing plant designed for the production of asphalt or of bituminous or tar macadam.

6.  Tower wagons either –

(a) (i) into which there is built, as part of the vehicle, an expanding or extendible device designed for facilitating the erection, inspection, repair or maintenance of overhead structures or equipment, and

(ii) which is not constructed or adapted for use, or used, for the conveyance of any load other than such a device or articles used in connection with it, or

(b) (i) into which there is built, as part of the vehicle, an expanding or extendible device designed for facilitating the erection, inspection, repair or maintenance of overhead structures or equipment, and

(ii) which is not constructed or adapted for use, or used, for the conveyance of any load other than such a device or articles used in connection with it, or

(A) such a device or articles used in connection with it, or

(B) articles used in connection with the installation or maintenance (by means of such a device) of materials or apparatus for lighting streets, roads or public places.

7.  Road construction vehicles and road rollers.

8.  Vehicles designed for fire fighting or fire salvage purposes.

9.  Work trucks, straddle carriers used solely as work trucks, and works trailers.

10.  Electrically-propelled motor vehicles.

11.  Vehicles used solely for one or both of the following purposes –

(a) clearing frost, ice or snow from roads by means of a snow plough or similar contrivance, whether forming part of the vehicle or not, and

(b) spreading material on roads to deal with frost, ice or snow.

12.  Motor vehicles used for no other purpose than the haulage of lifeboats and the conveyance of the necessary gear of the lifeboats which are being hauled.

13.  Living vans the maximum gross weight of which does not exceed 3,500 kilograms.

14.  Vehicles constructed or adapted for, and used primarily for the purpose of carrying equipment permanently fixed to the vehicle which equipment is used for medical, dental, veterinary, health, educational, display, clerical or experimental laboratory purposes, such use –

(a) not directly involving the sale, hire or loan of goods from the vehicle, and

(b) not directly or indirectly involving drain cleaning or sewage or refuse collection.

15.  Trailers which have no other brakes than a parking brake and brakes which automatically come into operation on the over-run of the trailer.

16.  A motor vehicle at a time when it is being used on a public road during any calendar week if –

(a) it is being used only in passing from land in the occupation of the person, keeping the vehicle to other land in his occupation, and

(b) it has not been used on public roads for distances exceeding an aggregate of six miles in that calendar week,

and to a trailer drawn by a motor vehicle that is being used on a public road in such circumstances.

• For the purposes of this paragraph “public road” means a road which is repairable at the public expense.

17.  Agricultural motor vehicles and agricultural trailed appliances.

18.  Agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliance conveyors drawn on roads only by an agricultural motor vehicle.

19.  Converter dollies used solely for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, or for any one or two of those purposes.

20.  Public service vehicles (as defined in Article 2(2) of the Order of 1981).

21.  Taxis (as defined in Article 79A of the Order of 1981)(1).

22.  Vehicles used solely for the purposes of funerals.

23.  Goods vehicles to which any of the prescribed construction and use requirements do not apply by virtue of either of the following items in the Table in regulation 3(4) of the Construction and Use Regulations namely –

(a) item 1 (which relates to vehicles proceeding to a port for export);

(b) item 4 (which relates to vehicles in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters).

24.  Vehicles equipped with new or improved equipment or types of equipment used, solely by a manufacturer of vehicles or their equipment or by an importer of vehicles, for or in connection with the test or trial of any such equipment.

25.  Motor vehicles brought into Northern Ireland and displaying a registration mark mentioned in regulation 2(1) of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Registration and Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1963(2), a period of twelve months not having elapsed since the vehicle in question was last brought into Northern Ireland.

26.  Motor vehicles in respect of which a goods vehicle test certificate under section 49 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(3) is in force.

27.  Goods vehicles not exceeding 3,500 kilograms in respect of which a vehicle test certificate, under section 45 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, is in force.

28.  Trailers brought into Northern Ireland and having a base or centre in a country outside Northern Ireland from which the use of the vehicle on a journey is normally commenced, a period of twelve months not having elapsed since the vehicle in question was last brought into Northern Ireland.

29.  Industrial tractors.

30.  Track-laying vehicles.

31.  Steam propelled vehicles.

32.  Motor vehicles first used before 1st January 1960, used unladen and not drawing a laden trailer, and trailers manufactured before 1st January 1960 and used unladen.

For the purposes of this paragraph any determination as to when a motor vehicle is first used shall be made as provided in regulation 2(4) of the Construction and Use Regulations.

33.  Motor vehicles constructed and not merely adapted, for the purpose of street cleansing, or the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies and which are either –

(a) three-wheeled vehicles, or

(b) vehicles which –

(i) are incapable by reason of their construction of exceeding a speed of 20 miles per hour on the level under their own power, or

(ii) have an inside track width of less than 810 millimetres.

34.  Vehicles designed and used for the purpose of servicing or controlling or loading, or unloading aircraft while so used –

(a) on an airport as defined in Article 2(2) of the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994(4);

(b) on roads outside such an airport if, except when proceeding directly from one part of such an airport to another part thereof, the vehicles are unladen and are not drawing a laden trailer.

35.  Vehicles designed for use and used on an airport mentioned in paragraph 34, solely for the purpose of road cleansing, the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies or cesspools.

36.  Vehicles provided for police purposes.

37.  Heavy motor cars constructed or adapted for the purpose of forming part of an articulated vehicle and which are used for drawing only a trailer falling within a class of vehicle specified in paragraph 13, 14 or 15 or a trailer being used for or in connection with any purpose for which it is authorised to be used on roads by an order under Article 60(1) of the 1995 Order, being an order authorising that trailer or any class or description of trailers comprising that trailer to be used on roads.

38.  Play-buses.

39.  Pedestrian-controlled vehicles.

40.  Trailers, not being converter dollies or semi-trailers, the unladen weight of which does not exceed 1,020 kilograms.

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 3 THE PRESCRIBED CONSTRUCTION AND USE REQUIREMENTS

PART I

1.  The requirements contained in the following provisions of the Construction and Use Regulations:

(1)	(2)	(3)
Item Number	Regulation	Subject Matter
1	6, 7, 13, and 14	Dimensions
2	20 to 25	Braking systems
3	29 to 32	Tyres
4	34	Maintenance for steering gear
5	35	View to the front
6	38	Mirrors
7	39	Windscreen wipers and washers
8	40 and 41	Speedometer
9	43	Speed limiters
10	44	Audible warning
11	54, 55 and 56	Seat belts
12	58 and 59	Rear under-run protection
13	60 and 61	Sideguards
14	62	Mascots
15	65	Maintenance of silencer
16	74	Smoke emission, oil, etc.
17	77 and 78	Spray suppression equipment
18	79	Plates
19	83	Speed limiter plates

2.  The requirements contained in the following provisions of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(5) set out in column (2) of the Table to the extent shown in column (4) (expressions used in the Table having the same meanings as they have in those regulations).

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Item No.	Regulation	Subject Matter	Extent
20	21	Obligatory lamps, reflectors, rear markings and devices	Except in so far as the regulation relates to dim-dip devices, running lamps, front fog lamps, reversing lamps and warning beacons
21	23	Optional lamps, reflectors, rear markings and devices	In so far as the regulation relates to headlamps fitted to motor vehicles, direction indicators, rear fog lamps, stop lamps, side marker lamps and rear markings
22	26	Maintenance of lamps, reflectors, rear markings and devices	Except in so far as the regulation relates to dim-dip devices, running lamps, front fog lamps, reversing lamps and warning beacons

3.  The requirements contained in the following provisions of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001(6):

(1)	(2)	(3)
Item No.	Regulation	Subject Matter
23	5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15	Registration marks and plates.

4.  The requirements, in so far as they relate to the installation of recording equipment in Article 3 and the seals to be affixed to such equipment in Article 12 and paragraph 4 of Section V of Annex I of the Community Recording Equipment Regulation (as defined in Article 53 of the 1995 Order).

PART II

5.—(a) The construction and use requirements specified in items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 18 of the Table in paragraph 1.

(b) The requirements of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 specified in items 20 and 22 of the Table in paragraph 2.

(c) The requirements of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 specified in paragraph 3.

PART III

6.  The requirements of this Part, in relation to a vehicle, are that the condition of the vehicle is such that its use on a road would not involve a danger of injury, to any person having regard in particular to items of the following descriptions –

• spare wheel carrier;

• trailer coupling on a motor vehicle;

• coupling on a trailer;

• the chassis;

• electrical wiring and equipment;

• landing legs;

• engine and transmission mountings;

• fuel tanks and system;

• transmission shafts and associated equipment;

• exhaust system;

• battery;

• wheels and hubs;

• suspension system;

• axles and steering gear;

• shock absorbers;

• bumpers;

• wings;

• the cab;

• driving seat;

• the body;

• driver’s controls;

• cab step or step rings;

• glass or other transparent material in windscreen or windows;

• doors, locks and hinges.

Regulation 16(1)

SCHEDULE 4

FORM OF GOODS VEHICLE TEST CERTIFICATERoad Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Regulation 16(1)

SCHEDULE 5

FORM OF GOODS VEHICLE TEST CERTIFICATE

Regulation 27

SCHEDULE 6 REGULATIONS REVOKED

Title	Year and Number
Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995	S.R. 1995 No. 450
Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996	S.R. 1996 No. 139
Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998	S.R. 1998 No. 75
Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998	S.R. 1998 No. 226
Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 365
Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003	S.R. 2003 No. 102

(1)

Article 79A was inserted by Part II of Schedule 3 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3)

(2)

S.R. & 0. 1963 No. 79

(3)

1988 c. 52

(4)

S.I. 1994/426 (N.I. 1)

(5)

S.R. 2000 No. 169

(6)

S.I. 2001 No. 561