# The Goods Vehicles (Prohibitions) (Exemptions and Appeals) Regulations 1987, 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1149/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-prohibitions-exemptions-and-appeals-regulations-1987/regulation-3
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