Re-examination procedure, and issue of test certificates (or notices of refusal)
13.—(1) Where a vehicle is submitted for a re-examination at a vehicle testing centre in circumstances where the fee for the re-examination is payable under paragraph (4) of regulation 11 a vehicle examiner shall in carrying out the examination be under an obligation only to examine the vehicle for the purpose of ascertaining whether it complies with the particular items of the prescribed statutory requirements or the condition requirement with which it was shown in the notice of a refusal of a test certificate not to comply.
(2) Where a vehicle examiner finds that the vehicle complies with the particular items of the prescribed statutory requirements or the condition requirement mentioned in paragraph (1) and has no reason to believe that the other prescribed statutory requirements or the condition requirement are not complied with in relation to the vehicle, there shall be issued a test certificate.
(3) Where a vehicle examiner does not find that the vehicle complies with the particular items of the prescribed statutory requirements or the condition requirement mentioned in paragraph (1) or finds that any other prescribed statutory requirement or an item of the condition requirement is not complied with in relation to the vehicle, there shall be issued a notice of the refusal of a test certificate.
(4) Where a vehicle is submitted for a re-examination at a vehicle testing centre in circumstances where a fee for the re-examination is payable under regulation 11(3), the Department shall arrange for the vehicle to undergo a re-examination, and when that re-examination has been completed there shall be issued –
(a)where the vehicle is found to comply with the prescribed statutory requirements and the condition requirement, a test certificate; or
(b)where the vehicle is found not to comply with the prescribed statutory requirements or the condition requirement, a notice of refusal of a test certificate.
(5) The person submitting the vehicle for re-examination shall produce the notification of refusal and the registration book relating to the vehicle, and the Department shall not be required to carry out the re-examination unless the notification of refusal and the registration book are produced.