{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-prohibitions-exemptions-and-appeals-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-prohibitions-exemptions-and-appeals-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1149",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Prohibitions) (Exemptions and Appeals) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-prohibitions-exemptions-and-appeals-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions from section 57(9)(a) of the 1972 Act",
  "text": "The use of a goods vehicle on a road—\n(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;\n(b) in the course of an inspection for the purpose of—\n(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\n(ii) carrying out any part of the inspection, the person so using it being (in either case) a person carrying out the inspection; or\n(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,\nis 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1149/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:24:21.984235+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."
}