{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Dates by which vehicles are to be submitted for periodical tests",
  "text": "(1) Every vehicle shall, in each year subsequent to the issue of a first goods vehicle test certificate, be submitted for a periodical test either –\n(a) not later than the first anniversary of the date on which the vehicle was required under regulation 7 to be submitted for a first test; or\n(b) if there is in force for the vehicle a goods vehicle test certificate with an expiry date other than that anniversary, not later than that expiry date.\n(2) Every vehicle, for which there is a goods vehicle certificate granted under the Goods Vehicles (Certification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990, shall be submitted for a periodical test on the date that the goods vehicle certificate ceases to continue in force and subsequently in each year thereafter not later than the anniversary of that date.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 1.8.2003, see reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1990 No. 224 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/304/regulation/8",
    "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."
}