The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

Issue of plating certificates, and particulars to be contained therein

21.—(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), after the determination of the plated weights of a vehicle submitted for an examination for plating there shall, unless there is a refusal to issue a goods vehicle test certificate in respect of that vehicle, be issued a plating certificate in respect of that vehicle.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in a case to which regulation 18(4) applies.

(3) Every plating certificate issued in relation to a vehicle shall—

(a) be signed either by the goods vehicle examiner who carried out, or under whose direction the examination for plating was carried out, or by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State; and

(b) contain—

(i) the date on which it was issued;

(ii) the number allotted by the Secretary of State to the vehicle testing station at which it was issued or the letters GVC if it was issued at the Goods Vehicle Centre;

(iii) the plated weights determined for that vehicle under regulation 19, 20 or 24;

(iv) where any such plated weight determined under regulation 19 is less than the equivalent weight shown as a design weight in the standard lists, that equivalent weight;

(v) where any such plated weight determined under regulation 20 is less than the weight which would have been determined but for paragraph (g) of that regulation the weight which would have been determined but for that paragraph shall be shown as a design weight;

(vi) the other plated particulars ascertained from the application mentioned in regulation 12 and an inspection of the vehicle;

(vii) any alteration in the vehicle or its equipment which is required by these Regulations to be notified to the Secretary of State; and

(viii) the sizes of the tyres fitted to the wheels of the vehicle at the time of the issue of the certificate, and the particular conditions, if any, in which a vehicle should be used on roads at or below its plated weights when fitted with those tyres properly maintained.

(4) A plating certificate issued in relation to a vehicle under the provisions of these Regulations may contain (in addition to the particulars mentioned in paragraph (3))—

(a) the DOE (Department of the Environment) or DTp (Department of Transport) reference number for the particular type of vehicle, and

(b) the maximum authorised weights and dimensions in accordance with article 2 of Council Directive 85/3/EEC(1).

(1)

O.J. No. L2, 3.1.1985, p.14.