{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/263",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Regulation 9 (dates by which vehicles are to be submitted for first examination)",
  "text": "For regulation 9 there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“9 (1) Every motor vehicle to which paragraph (3) applies shall be submitted for a goods vehicle test on or before the appropriate day.\n(2) Every motor vehicle to which paragraph (3) does not apply and every trailer shall be submitted for both a plating examination and a goods vehicle test on or before the appropriate day.\n(3) This paragraph applies to a motor vehicle if the following requirements are met, namely—\n(a) a plating certificate is in force for the vehicle; and\n(b) that plating certificate is a certificate of conformity or a Minister’s approval certificate that is treated as a plating certificate by virtue of section 59(4) of the 1988 Act.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not prevent the Secretary of State authorising the submission of a vehicle for a first examination after the date by which the vehicle is required by those paragraphs to be submitted for first examination.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/263/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:14.826556+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."
}