# Motor Vehicle Testing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, Regulation 6: Exemptions

Extent: N.I.

(1) Article 63 of the Order does not apply to the following vehicles –
(i) a heavy locomotive;
(ii) a light locomotive;
(iii) a motor tractor;
(iv) a track laying vehicle;
(v) an articulated vehicle not being an articulated bus;
(vi) a vehicle at a time when it is being used on a public road during any calendar week if –
(i) it is being used only in passing from land in the occupation of the person keeping the vehicle to other land in his occupation, and
(ii) it has not been used on public roads for distances exceeding an aggregate of six miles in that calendar week,
and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph “public road” means a road which is repairable at the public expense;
(vii) a works truck;
(viii) a pedestrian controlled vehicle;
(ix) a vehicle (including a cycle with an attachment for propelling it by mechanical power) which is adapted, and used or kept on a road, for invalids, and which –
(i) does not exceed 306 kilograms in weight unladen, or
(ii) exceeds 306 kilograms but does not exceed 510 kilograms in weight unladen, and are supplied and maintained by or on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Services;
(x) a vehicle temporarily in Northern Ireland displaying a registration mark described in regulation 5 of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Registration and Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1963 a period of twelve months not having elapsed since the vehicle was last brought into Northern Ireland;
(xi) a vehicle proceeding to a port for export from the United Kingdom;
(xii) a vehicle in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters (within the meaning given by Article 8(9) of The Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999;
(xiii) a vehicle provided for police or fire brigade purposes;
(xiv) a vehicle owned by or in the service of the naval, military or air forces of Her Majesty;
(xv) a vehicle in respect of which a test certificate issued in accordance with section 45 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is in force;
(xvi) an agricultural motor vehicle;
(xvii) a motor vehicle constructed and not merely adapted for the purpose of street cleansing or the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies and which is either –
(a) a three wheeled vehicle, or
(b) a vehicle which –
(i) is incapable by reason of its construction of exceeding a speed of 20 miles per hour on the level under its own power, or
(ii) has an inside track width of less than 810 millimetres;
(xviii) a vehicle constructed or adapted for and used solely for the purpose of spreading material on roads to deal with frost, ice or snow;
(xix) an electrically-propelled vehicle; and
(xx) a public service vehicle.
(2) The use of a vehicle –
(a) (i) for the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement for, or bring it away from, an examination, or
(ii) in the course of an examination, for the purpose of taking it to, or bringing it away from, any place where a part of the examination is to be or, as the case may be, has been, carried out, or of carrying out any part of the examination, the person so using it being either –
(A) an examiner; or
(B) a person acting under the personal direction of an examiner; or
(iii) where a test certificate is refused on an examination –
(A) for the purpose of delivering it by previous arrangement at, or bringing it away from, a place where work is to be or has been done on it to remedy for a further examination the defects on the grounds of which the test certificate was refused; or
(B) for the purpose of delivering it, by towing it, to a place where the vehicle is to be broken up;
(b) for any purpose for which the vehicle is authorised to be used on roads by an order under Article 60 of the Order;
(c) where the vehicle has been imported into Northern Ireland, for the purpose of its being driven after arrival in Northern Ireland on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Northern Ireland to a place of residence of the owner or driver of the vehicle;
(d) for the purpose of removing it in pursuance of orders made under Article 15(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 or Article 30 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;
(e) where the vehicle has been detained or seized by a police constable, for police purposes connected with such detention or seizure;
(f) where the vehicle has been removed, detained or seized or condemned as forfeited under any provision of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 for any purpose authorised by an officer of Customs and Excise;
(g) for the purpose of testing it by a motor trader as defined in section 62(1) of the 1994 Act, to whom a trade licence has been issued under section 11 of the 1994 Act, during the course of, or after completion of repairs carried out to that vehicle by that motor trader;
(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; and
(i) being a goods vehicle first used before 1st January 1960, which is used unladen and not drawing a laden trailer, and a trailer manufactured before 1st January 1960 and used unladen,
is exempt from Article 63(1).
(3) A vehicle in use only on Rathlin Island is exempt from Article 63(1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/303/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-6
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