{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/304",
  "legislation_title": "Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Form of test certificates and notices of refusal",
  "text": "(1) Goods vehicle test certificates issued under regulation 14 or 15 shall be in the form specified in Schedule 4 or Schedule 5.\n(2) Notices of refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate issued under regulation 14 or 15 shall –\n(a) contain –\n(i) the date on which it was issued;\n(ii) details of the vehicle testing centre at which it was issued;\n(iii) in the case of a notice issued for a motor vehicle, the registration mark (if any) exhibited on the vehicle or, if no such mark is so exhibited, the chassis or serial number marked on the vehicle;\n(iv) in the case of a notice issued for a trailer, the identification mark which shall be allotted to the trailer by the Department in the notice of appointment (if any); and\n(b) state the grounds of such refusal.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 1.8.2003, see reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2018/86",
      "affecting_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/304/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:18.714283+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."
}