{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Exemptions from section 53(1) and (2) of the 1988 Act",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of section 53(1) and (2) of the 1988 Act do not apply to the use of a vehicle for any of the following purposes—\n(a) the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement for, or of bringing it away from, or being used in the course of or in connection with any examination;\n(b) where a goods vehicle test certificate is refused on an examination—\n(i) the purpose of delivering it by previous arrangement at, or bringing it away from, a place where work is to be or has been done on it to remedy the defects on the grounds of which the certificate was refused; or\n(ii) the purpose of delivering it, by towing it, to a place where it is to be broken up;\n(c) when unladen, the purpose of being driven or drawn by a vehicle driven under a trade licence issued under section 16 of the 1971 Act;\n(d) the purpose of being driven or drawn where it has been imported into Great Britain after arrival in Great Britain on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Great Britain to a place where it is to be kept by the person importing the vehicle or by any other person on whose behalf the vehicle has been imported, and in this sub-paragraph the reference to a vehicle being imported into Great Britain is a reference, in the case of a vehicle which has been so imported more than once, to the first such importation, and in determining for the purposes of this sub-paragraph when a vehicle was first so imported any such importation as is referred to in paragraph 24 of Schedule 2 shall be disregarded;\n(e) any purpose for which it is authorised to be used on roads by an order under section 44 of the 1988 Act , except in circumstances where the order provides that those provisions apply, in whole or in part, to the use of the vehicle;\n(f) any purpose connected with its seizure or detention by a constable;\n(g) any purpose connected with its removal, detention, seizure, condemnation or forfeiture under any provision in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979; and\n(h) the purpose of removing it under section 3 of the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978, or under section 99 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or of removing it from a parking place in pursuance of an order under section 35(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, an order relating to a parking place designated under section 45 thereof, or a provision of a designation order having effect by virtue of section 53(3) thereof.\n(2) The provisions of section 53(1) and (2) of the 1988 Act shall not apply to the use of a vehicle in so far as such use occurs in any place (excluding the Isle of Wight, the islands of Bute, Lewis, Mainland (Orkney), Mainland (Shetland) and Skye) being an island or to any area mainly surrounded by water, being an island or area from which motor vehicles not constructed for special purposes can at no time be conveniently driven to a road in any other part of Great Britain by reason of the absence of any bridge, tunnel, ford or other way suitable for the passage of such motor vehicles.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44(1) substituted (2.4.1990) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/448), regs. 1, 9(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44(1)(e) substituted (2.4.1990) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/448), regs. 1, 9(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44(1)(e) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44(1)(f) substituted (2.4.1990) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/448), regs. 1, 9(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44(2) substituted (2.4.1990) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/448), regs. 1, 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 44(2) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 13(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44 heading substituted (2.4.1990) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/448), regs. 1, 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 44 in force at 23.9.1988, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1478/regulation/44",
    "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."
}