Regulation 3 Exemptions from section 57(9)(a) of the 1972 Act

The use of a goods vehicle on a road—

(a)

solely for the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement at a specified time on a specified date for an inspection at a vehicle testing station or such other place as shall have been agreed between the person proposing to carry out, and the person submitting the vehicle for, the inspection;

(b)

in the course of an inspection for the purpose of—

(i)

taking it to, or bringing it away from, any place where a part of the inspection is to be, or (as the case may be) has been, carried out; or

(ii)

carrying out any part of the inspection, the person so using it being (in either case) a person carrying out the inspection; or

(c)

within three miles measured in a straight line from the place where it is being, or has been, repaired solely for the purpose of its test or trial with a view to the removal of a prohibition,

is exempted from section 57(9)(a) of the 1972 Act (which makes it an offence to drive, or cause or permit to be driven, a goods vehicle on a road in contravention of a prohibition).