The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/1433
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 26th June 2000.

Section 2 Preliminary

The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988 shall be further amended as follows.

Section 3 Amendments to regulation 3 (interpretation)

In regulation 3(1) in the sub-paragraph which begins with the expression “ agricultural motor vehicle,” there shall be inserted after the expression “ engineering plant,” the expression “exhaust system,”.

Section 4 Amendment to regulation 8 (conditions of acceptance of vehicle)

(1) Regulation 8 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2)—

(a) the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (o) shall be omitted; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (p) there shall be added the following—

; or

(q) the vehicle is a vehicle propelled by a compression ignition engine to which regulation 61(10BA) of the Construction and Use Regulations applies and the exhaust system has been so altered that the examiner is not able, with the facilities and apparatus available to him at the place at which the examination would otherwise be carried out, to determine whether Part II of Schedule 7B to those Regulations applies to the vehicle

Section 5 Amendment to Part VI (miscellaneous matters)

After regulation 42 there shall be added the following regulation—

Provisions as to signatures

(42A) Any plating certificate, goods vehicle test certificate, notice of the refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate or certificate of temporary exemption which has been issued under the provisions of these Regulations and which bears a facsimile, by whatever process reproduced, of the signature of, as the case may be, the relevant goods vehicle examiner, authorised or appointed person or appeal officer, shall be deemed to have been duly signed.

Section 6 Amendments relating to fees

(1) In regulation 12, in paragraph (3), for the Table there shall be substituted the following Table—

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(2) In the regulations specified in column (1) of the following Table for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).

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