The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

Re-test procedure, and issue of plating and test certificates (or notices of refusal)

24.—(1) Where on a first examination of a vehicle no plating certificate has been issued in respect of that vehicle and it is submitted for a re-test under regulation 15 a goods vehicle examiner shall determine as the plated weights of the vehicle—

(a) if after examination of the vehicle he is satisfied that no alteration has been made to the vehicle or its equipment which would render inapplicable the plated weights determined for the vehicle on its first examination, the weights so determined; or

(b) if he is not so satisfied, weights consistent with regulation 19 or, as the case may be, regulation 20.

(2) A goods vehicle examiner in carrying out an examination pursuant to regulation 15(2) and (3) shall be under an obligation only to examine the vehicle for the purpose of ascertaining whether it complies with the particular items of the prescribed construction and use requirements with which it was shown in the last notice of a refusal of a test certificate not to comply.

(3) Where a goods vehicle examiner finds that the vehicle complies with the particular items of the prescribed construction and use requirements mentioned in paragraph (2) and has no reason to believe that the other prescribed construction and use requirements are not complied with in relation to the vehicle, there shall be issued a goods vehicle test certificate and also a plating certificate for the vehicle.

(4) Where a goods vehicle examiner finds that the vehicle does not comply with the particular items of the prescribed construction and use requirements mentioned in paragraph (2) or that any other prescribed construction and use requirement is not complied with in relation to the vehicle, there shall be issued a notice of the refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate and in that event no plating certificate shall be issued for the vehicle.

(5) On completion of an examination of a vehicle pursuant to regulation 15(4) a goods vehicle examiner shall arrange for the vehicle to undergo a goods vehicle test, and when that test has been completed there shall be issued—

(a) where the vehicle is found to comply with the prescribed construction and use requirements, a goods vehicle test certificate and also a plating certificate for that vehicle; or

(b) where the vehicle is found not to comply with the prescribed construction and use requirements, a notice of the refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate, and in that event no plating certificate shall be issued for the vehicle.