# The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997, Regulation 5: Regulation 9 (dates by which vehicles are to be submitted for first examination)


For regulation 9 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“9 (1) Every motor vehicle to which paragraph (3) applies shall be submitted for a goods vehicle test on or before the appropriate day.
(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.
(3) This paragraph applies to a motor vehicle if the following requirements are met, namely—
(a) a plating certificate is in force for the vehicle; and
(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.
(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.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/263/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-5
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