{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/303",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicle Testing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Production of test certificate on application for licence",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made for a licence under the 1994 Act for a motor vehicle to which Article 63(2)(a) of the Order applies, the licence shall not be granted unless there is produced a current test certificate or effective certificate of temporary exemption.\n(2) Where an application is made for a licence under the 1994 Act for a motor vehicle to which Article 63(2)(b) of the Order applies, the licence shall not be granted unless –\n(a) there is produced a current test certificate or effective certificate of temporary exemption; or\n(b) the owner of the vehicle declares in writing the year in which the vehicle was manufactured, and a period of 4 years, or such other period specified by an order made by the Department under Article 63(9) of the Order, from the date of manufacture has not expired.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1) inserted (9.8.2004) by Motor Vehicle Testing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/321), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(2)(a) inserted (9.8.2004) by Motor Vehicle Testing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/321), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 20(2)(b) substituted (1.1.2004) by Motor Vehicles Testing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003/518), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in operation at 1.8.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/494",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicle Testing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/303/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:19.772964+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."
}