The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

Fees for re-tests

16.—(1) Save as provided in paragraph (3), the fee for a re-test of a vehicle carried out under regulation 15(2) or (3) is £13 in the case of a motor vehicle and £7.50 in the case of a trailer and such fee shall be paid to the Secretary of State on the submission of the vehicle for the re-test and may be paid in cash.

(2) The fee for a re-test of a vehicle carried out under regulation 15(4) is £25.25 in the case of a motor vehicle and £14 in the case of a trailer, and such fee shall be paid to the Secretary of State at the same time as the application for the re-test under regulation 15(4) is made.

(3) The fee prescribed in paragraph (1) shall not be payable if—

(a) the vehicle is submitted for a re-test on the same day as the day on which the first examination or periodical test, as the case may be, was carried out, or the next following day on which the vehicle testing station at which arrangements have been made to carry out the re-test is open;

(b) the fee for the first examination, periodical test or last preceding re-test, as the case may be, has been paid; and

(c) the re-test is due only to one or more defects in the vehicle as a result of which any of the following prescribed construction and use requirements are not complied with, namely those contained in—

(i) the following items in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3, namely 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18 (so far as the regulation there mentioned relates to the emission of an oily substance), 20, 21 (so far as that item relates to the spare wheel carrier, fuel tanks and system, bumpers and the cab), 22 to 33 and 36 to 41; and

(ii) paragraph 3 in Schedule 3.