{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37/article-3a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37/article-3a.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1999/37",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37",
  "path": "article/3a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where the competent authority of a Member State receives notification of a periodic roadworthiness test showing that the authorisation to use a particular vehicle in road traffic has been suspended in accordance with Article 9 of Directive 2014/45/EU, the suspension shall be recorded electronically and an additional roadworthiness test shall be carried out.\nThe suspension shall be effective until the vehicle has passed a new roadworthiness test. On successful completion of the roadworthiness test, the competent authority shall without delay re-authorise the use of the vehicle in road traffic. No new process of registration shall be necessary.\nMember States or their competent authorities may adopt measures to facilitate the retesting of a vehicle the authorisation of which for use in road traffic has been suspended. Those measures may include the grant of permission to travel on public roads between a place of repair and a test centre for the purpose of a roadworthiness test.\n2. Member States may allow the holder of the registration certificate to submit a request to the competent authority for transfer of the registration to the new owner of the vehicle.\n3. In the event that the competent authority of a Member State receives notification that a vehicle has been treated as an end-of-life vehicle in accordance with Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , the registration of that vehicle shall be cancelled permanently and information to that effect shall be added to the electronic register.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Directive 2014/46/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 amending Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of-life vehicles ( OJ L 269, 21.10.2000, p. 34 )."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1999/37/article/3a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:04.829702+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."
}