The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

• Citation: S.I. 1995/1457
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on the 1st July 1995.

Section 2

(1) Regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (vii) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

(vii) a vehicle to which paragraph (1A) for the time being applies.

(3) After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(1A) This paragraph applies to a vehicle at a time when it is being used on a public road during any calendar week if—

(a) it is being used only in passing from land in the occupation of the person keeping the vehicle to other land in his occupation, and

(b) it has not been used on public roads for distances exceeding an aggregate of six miles in that calendar week,

and for the purposes of this paragraph “public road” has the meaning given in section 62(1) the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 .