{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-regulations-1981/regulation-8D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-regulations-1981/regulation-8D.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1694",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/8D",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8D",
  "heading": "The individual authorisation conditions",
  "text": "The conditions referred to in regulation 8(6) are that the individual to whom the authorisation relates—\n(a) shall not carry out any examination—\n(i) unless he has successfully completed a course of instruction in the carrying out of examinations provided under section 45(6A) of the 1988 Act;\n(ii) at a particular vehicle testing station, unless by electronic communication to the Secretary of State, at the office of DVSA for the area in which that testing station is situated, or by such other means as the Secretary of State may from time to time require, he has informed the Secretary of State of his intention to carry out examinations at that testing station;\n(b) shall, within 7 days of entering into a partnership with a view to carrying on at his vehicle testing station a business comprising the carrying out of examinations, inform the Secretary of State, at the office of DVSA for the area in which his vehicle testing station is situated, of his entry into partnership and of the identity of the other members of the firm; and\n(c) shall complete a course of instruction in the functions of authorised examiners provided under section 45(6A) of the 1988 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 (regs. 7, 7A, 8, 8A-8F, 9-11) substituted for Pt. 2 (regs. 7-11) (1.6.2003) by The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1113), regs. 1(1), 5, Sch. (with regs. 1(3), 25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8D(a)(ii) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Driving Standards Agency and the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Merger) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/480), regs. 1, 3(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8D(b) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Driving Standards Agency and the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Merger) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/480), regs. 1, 3(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1694/regulation/8D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:30:17.123448+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."
}