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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1894",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\n1 These Regulations firstly replace article 6 of the Transport Act 1985 (Commencement No.6) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1794) and article 3 of the Transport Act 1985 (Commencement No.7) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1228) which purported to amend the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 (“the 1981 Regulations”). As a result of the amendments buses being used to provide a community bus service and small buses constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 seated passengers used under a permit granted under section 19 of the Transport Act 1985 are included in Class V for the purposes of the 1981 Regulations.\n2 Secondly, the 1981 Regulations are amended so that references to inspection check lists on forms marked VT30, VT30M or VTP30 are substituted by references to inspection card in the case of form VTP30 and to inspection report in the case of forms VT30 and VT30M. This is to accord with previous administrative practice.\n3 Thirdly, the 1981 Regulations are amended so that inspection reports VT30 or VT30M only have to be issued —\n(a) if a notice of refusal of test certificate is issued, or\n(b) if a test certificate is issued but the examiner or inspector considers that the applicant who submitted the vehicle for examination should be informed of a defect in the vehicle.\n4 There are amendments in these Regulations consequential to the amendments referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this note.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "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."
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