{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-motor-vehicles-tests-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-motor-vehicles-tests-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1700",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation (Motor Vehicles Tests) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-motor-vehicles-tests-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it an offence for a vehicle to which the section applies to be used on a road unless a MoT test certificate has been issued for it within the previous twelve months. The section does not in general, apply to any vehicle until a specified period after it is first registered, the specified period being 3 years in some cases and one year in other cases. However, where a vehicle is tested within one month (two months in the case of a public service vehicle) before the expiration of a current certificate, the twelve month period is extended to twelve months from the expiration of that certificate.\nThis Order amends the 1988 Act so that where a vehicle is tested within one month (two months in the case of a public service vehicle) before the date by which it is first required to have a certificate, the twelve month period is extended to twelve months from that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1700/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:11.616885+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}