{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where the driver is the owner of the vehicle, he may at the time of electing that the test shall be deferred—\n(a) specify a period of seven days within which the deferred test is to take place, being a period falling within the next thirty days, disregarding any day on which the vehicle is outside Great Britain, and\n(b) require that the deferred test shall take place on premises then specified by him where the test can conveniently be carried out or that it shall take place in such area in England . . ., being a county district or Greater London in such county or county borough in Wales, or such area in Scotland, being the area of a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 , as he may specify at that time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(b) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(1), 66(8), Sch. 7, Pt. II para. 40(2), Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, arts. 3, 4, Sch. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(b) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994, c. 19, s. 22(1), Sch. 40(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(b) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1994, c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 159(9); S.I. 1996/323, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:34.565959+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."
}