The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Duplicate test certificates

17.  For regulation 23 (duplicate test certificates), substitute the following regulation—

“Duplicate test certificates

23.— (1) If a test certificate has been lost or defaced, an application for the issue of a duplicate of the original certificate may, at any time before the end of the period of 18 months beginning with the date on which the examination to which the certificate relates was carried out, be made—

(a) at the vehicle testing station from which the original certificate was obtained,

(b) at any other vehicle testing station, or

(c) at any office of VOSA.

(2) The applicant shall provide with his application—

(a) particulars of the registration mark (if any) of the vehicle concerned;

(b) where the application is made as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b), such other information as the authorised examiner or designated council at whose testing station the application is made reasonably requires in order to access relevant data from the electronic record;

(c) where the application is made as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c), such other information as the Secretary of State reasonably requires.

(3) The person to whom an application is made under paragraph (1) shall—

(a) upon tracing sufficient particulars of the certificate to which the application relates to enable a duplicate to be issued; and

(b) on being paid—

(i) where the certificate relates to a motor bicycle not having a side car attached to it, the amount equal to half of the fee specified in regulation 20(1)(a);

(ii) in any other case, £10,

issue a duplicate, marked “Duplicate”; and the duplicate so issued shall have the same effect as the original test certificate.

(4) A duplicate issued under paragraph (3) need not be signed by the person who carried out the examination as the result of which the original certificate was obtained.”.