{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), where a vehicle is submitted for an examination for plating on a first examination, a vehicle examiner shall determine the plated weights of the vehicle having regard—\n(a) to any information which may have been supplied by the Secretary of State as to the plated weights which have been determined for similar vehicles under these Regulations;\n(b) to the design, construction and equipment of the vehicle, and the stresses to which it is likely to be subject when in use on roads;\n(c) to any information which may be available about the weights at which the vehicle was originally designed to be driven on roads;\n(d) if the vehicle or its equipment has, or appears to have, been altered since the date of its manufacture, to the likely effect of any such alteration in making the vehicle fit to be driven safely on roads at weights different from those at which it appears to the examiner the vehicle was originally designed to be so driven;\n(e) if the vehicle is a motor vehicle, the requirements of regulations 15, 16 and 18 of the Construction and Use Regulations;\n(f) if the vehicle is a trailer, to—\n(i) the requirements of regulations 15 and 16 of the Construction and Use Regulations; and\n(ii) the provisions of Schedule 1; and\n(g) to the need to comply with regulations 25, 75, 78 and 79 of the Construction and Use Regulations, and with the requirement that–\n(i) no plated weight relating to train weight, other than a plated train weight applicable only to combined transport operations, shall exceed the maximum train weight at which the vehicle can lawfully be driven on a road in Great Britain by virtue of the Construction and Use Regulations, ignoring Schedule 11A to those Regulations; and\n(ii) no plated weight relating to train weight applicable only to combined transport operations can exceed the maximum train weight at which the vehicle can lawfully be driven on a road in Great Britain by virtue of the Construction and Use Regulations (having regard to Schedule 11A to those Regulations);\n(1A) Paragraph (1) does not apply where a vehicle examiner has determined that a plating certificate is not required.\n(2) In this regulation, a reference to use on a road is a reference to use on a road other than for international transport.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, the Construction and Use Regulations shall have effect as if regulation 80 were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 renumbered as reg. 20(1) (24.3.1994) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/328), regs. 1, 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1) substituted (5.3.1997) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1)(e) substituted (5.3.1997) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 10(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1)(g) substituted (24.3.1994) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/328), regs. 1, 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 20(1A) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 20(2)(3) inserted (24.3.1994) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/328), regs. 1, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 23.9.1988, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1478/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:19.714158+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."
}