The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

Examination for plating

20.  In the event of a goods vehicle examiner determining that the vehicle submitted for an examination for plating is not of a make, model and type or otherwise one to which the weights shown in the standard lists apply he shall determine the plated weights of the vehicle having regard—

(a) to any information which may have been supplied by the Secretary of State as to the plated weights which have been determined for similar vehicles under these Regulations;

(b) to the design, construction and equipment of the vehicle, and the stresses to which it is likely to be subject when in use on roads;

(c) to any information which may be available about the weights at which the vehicle was originally designed to be driven on roads;

(d) if the vehicle or its equipment has, or appears to have, been altered since the date of its manufacture, to the likely effect of any such alteration in making the vehicle fit to be driven safely on roads at weights different from those at which it appears to the examiner the vehicle was originally designed to be so driven;

(e) if the vehicle is a motor vehicle, to the requirements as to brakes specified in the definition of “the standard lists” in regulation 3(1);

(f) if the vehicle is a trailer, to—

(i) the requirements of regulations 15 and 16 of the Construction and Use Regulations; and

(ii) the provisions of Schedule 1; and

(g) to the need to comply with regulations 25, 75, 78 and 79 of the Construction and Use Regulations, and with the requirement that no plated weight relating to the train weight of a motor vehicle shall exceed the maximum train weight at which the vehicle can lawfully be used on a road in Great Britain by virtue of the Construction and Use Regulations.