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The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981

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Records to be kept and returns to be furnished by examiners and designated councilsE+W+S

22.—(1) Examiners and designated councils shall make, in duplicate, at each of their respective vehicle testing stations a record relating to all examinations carried out at that station, and that record shall be on a form supplied by the Secretary of State and marked “VT. 12” and contain the particulars required by that form.

(2) On one of the first fourteen days of each month each authorised examiner and designated council shall send to the Secretary of State at the office of the traffic area in which is situated the vehicle testing station at which the record is kept—

(a)one copy of the record containing all the entries made therein relating to any examination as a result of which a test certificate or a notification of the refusal of a test certificate has been issued during the last preceding month, or

(b)if no such certificate or notification has been issued, a notice to that effect.

(3) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, the other copy of the record shall be kept by the examiner or council at the station at which the examinations to which it relates are carried out for a period sufficient to ensure that upon the inspection at any time of that record under Regulation 24 the entries relating to any examination carried out within the last preceding eighteen months will be available for inspection.

(4) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, each examiner and designated council shall ensure that upon the issue by that examiner or an inspector appointed by that council of a test certificate or of a notice of the refusal of a test certificate, a copy of that certificate or notice, together with a copy of the inspection check list which accompanied the same, is made and preserved at that station for a period of not less than eighteen months.

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I1Reg. 22 in force at 31.12.1981, see reg. 1

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