{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-design-weight-certificate-regulations-1995/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-design-weight-certificate-regulations-1995/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1455",
  "legislation_title": "The Vehicle Excise (Design Weight Certificate) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-design-weight-certificate-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Vehicles which have been adapted after being issued with a plating certificate or a design weight certificate.",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a vehicle if it has been issued with a plating certificate or a design weight certificate.\n(2) Where a vehicle to which this paragraph applies is submitted for a design weight examination, a vehicle examiner shall cause the vehicle to be examined for the purpose of determining to what extent (if any) the weight which appears from the last relevant certificate to be the design weight is no longer applicable and (if relevant) for the purpose of sub-paragraph (3) below.\n(3) The vehicle examiner shall consider whether subsection (4) of section 60A of the 1994 Act applies to the vehicle and, if he determines that to be the case he shall determine the design weight in accordance with that subsection.\n(4) If the vehicle examiner determines that subsection (4) of section 60A of the 1994 Act does not apply to the vehicle, he shall determine the design weight having regard to the extent (if any) to which the last relevant certificate is no longer applicable.\n(5) A vehicle examiner shall not be under any obligation to proceed with a design weight examination of a vehicle under this paragraph where on submission of the vehicle the applicant does not after being required to do so, produce to the vehicle examiner the last relevant certificate.\n(6) When the vehicle examiner has determined the design weight in accordance with this paragraph, he shall—\n(a) if the last relevant certificate is a plating certificate, cause a design weight certificate to be issued and that plating certificate to be marked with an indication that a design weight certificate has been issued; or\n(b) if the last relevant certificate is a design weight certificate, issue a new design weight certificate in place of that certificate and mark the replaced certificate as cancelled.\n(7) For the purpose of this paragraph “relevant certificate” means a plating certificate or a design weight certificate; and a reference to the “last relevant certificate”, in relation to a vehicle, is a reference to the last relevant certificate issued as respects the vehicle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1455/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:17.115858+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."
}