{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Dates by which vehicles are to be submitted for first examinations",
  "text": "(1) Every motor vehicle to which paragraph (3) or paragraph (3A) applies shall be submitted for a goods vehicle test on or before the appropriate day.\n(2) Every motor vehicle and trailer to which neither of paragraphs (3) and (3A) applies 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 or trailer 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(3A) This paragraph applies to a motor vehicle or trailer for which a plating certificate is not required, in accordance with regulation 20(1A).\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": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 substituted (5.3.1997) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/263), regs. 1(2), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(2) substituted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(3) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 8(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 9(3A) inserted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 8(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}