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The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981
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- 1981 No. 1694
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- Regulation 17
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Removal of vehicles submitted for examinationE+W+S
17.—(1) Where a vehicle has been submitted for an examination at a vehicle testing station of an examiner, a designated council or the Secretary of State, the person by whom the vehicle has been so submitted shall save as may otherwise be permitted by the examiner, designated council or the Secretary of State, as the case may be, cause it to be removed from the custody of the examiner, council or the Secretary of State, as the case may be—
(a)where an appointment or arrangement has been made for the carrying out of the examination on a particular day and the examination has been completed on or before that day, before the end of the second day after that day, or
(b)in any other case, before the end of the second day after the day on which the person submitting the vehicle for examination is given notice (whether in writing or not)—
(i)that the examination has been carried out, or
(ii)in a case where the examination is not carried out by reason of any of the provisions of Regulation 13 that he is to remove the vehicle from such custody.
(2) In this Regulation—
(a)references to an examination, in relation to a vehicle which, after the carrying out of an examination, remains in the custody of an examiner, a designated council or the Secretary of State in order that a further examination of that vehicle may be carried out, include references to that further examination, and
(b)references to a vehicle as being in the custody of a designated council or the Secretary of State include references to a vehicle which is, in connection with the carrying out of an examination by an inspector appointed by such a council or the Secretary of State, in the control or care of such an inspector.
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I1Reg. 17 in force at 31.12.1981, see reg. 1
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