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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2742",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Determination of applications and issue of certificates or notification of refusal",
  "text": "(1) Except in a specified case or where the applicant requests that a reduced pollution examination is carried out, an authorised examiner shall, on the basis of the prescribed information and the prescribed declarations, determine whether to issue a reduced pollution certificate.\n(2) An authorised examiner ... shall issue a reduced pollution certificate to the applicant if and only if he is satisfied that an eligible vehicle satisfies the reduced pollution requirements.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (3A), a reduced pollution certificate shall be granted for such period as the Secretary of State may determine.\n(3A) A reduced pollution certificate for an eligible vehicle to which paragraph 4C applies—\n(a) shall not be granted for a period which expires after 30th November 2017; and\n(b) if issued on or after 1st January 2016, shall be granted for a period which expires at the end of 30th November 2017.\n(4) If an authorised examiner is not satisfied that an eligible vehicle ... satisfies the reduced pollution requirements, he shall notify the applicant of his refusal of the application and of the reasons for it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(1) inserted (22.12.2009) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3103), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(1)-(3) renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 5(2)-(4) (22.12.2009) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3103), regs. 1, 6(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in renumbered Sch. 2 para. 5(2) omitted (22.12.2009) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3103), regs. 1, 6(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in renumbered Sch. 2 para. 5(2) substituted (22.12.2009) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3103), regs. 1, 6(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(3) substituted (23.3.2012) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/443), regs. 1, 6(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(3A) inserted (23.3.2012) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/443), regs. 1, 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in renumbered Sch. 2 para. 5(4) omitted (22.12.2009) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3103), regs. 1, 6(c)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2742/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:59.749373+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."
}