{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-21.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/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Issue of plating certificates, and particulars to be contained therein",
  "text": "(1) ... After the determination of the plated weights of a vehicle submitted for an examination for plating on a first examination there shall, unless there is a refusal to issue a goods vehicle test certificate in respect of that vehicle, be issued a plating certificate in respect of that vehicle.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Every plating certificate issued in relation to a vehicle shall—\n(a) be signed either by the goods vehicle examiner who carried out, or under whose direction the examination for plating was carried out, or by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State; and\n(b) contain—\n(i) the date on which it was issued;\n(ii) the number allotted by the Secretary of State to the vehicle testing station at which it was issued or the letters GVC if it was issued at the Goods Vehicle Centre;\n(iii) the plated weights determined for that vehicle under regulation ... 20 or 24;\n(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(v) where any such plated weight determined under regulation 20 is less than the weight which would have been determined but for paragraph (g) of that regulation the weight which would have been determined but for that paragraph shall be shown as a design weight;\n(vi) the other plated particulars ascertained from the application mentioned in regulation 12 and an inspection of the vehicle;\n(vii) any alteration in the vehicle or its equipment which is required by these Regulations to be notified to the Secretary of State; and\n(viii) the sizes of the tyres fitted to the wheels of the vehicle at the time of the issue of the certificate, and the particular conditions, if any, in which a vehicle should be used on roads at or below its plated weights when fitted with those tyres properly maintained.\n(4) A plating certificate issued in relation to a vehicle under the provisions of these Regulations may contain (in addition to the particulars mentioned in paragraph (3))—\n(a) the DOE (Department of the Environment) or DTp (Department of Transport) reference number for the particular type of vehicle, and\n(b) the maximum authorised weights and dimensions in accordance with article 2 of Council Directive 85/3/EEC.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(1) omitted (5.3.1997) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(1) inserted (5.3.1997) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 21(2) omitted (5.3.1997) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21(3)(b)(iii) omitted (5.3.1997) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 21(3)(b)(iv) omitted (5.3.1997) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 23.9.1988, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L2, 3.1.1985, p.14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1478/regulation/21",
    "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."
}