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ieveral thousand vehicles a year will be jht within the scope of the testing tie by the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act ' (Commencement No. 2) Order 1969, -I comes into operation on May 1, 1969. is extends the requirement for vehicles tered for more than three years to have test certificates to certain vehicles which been used on roads in Great Britain and there before being registered in this try.
e Minister of Transport laid before Parlialast week the Motor Vehicles (Producof Test Certificates) Regulations 1969. ?, provide that where application is made n excise licence for a vehicle registered than three years previously, either a nt test certificate must be produced or ipplicant must make a declaration that roposed use of the vehicle does not need t certificate. Where the vehicle was regisless than three years ago but has been before being registered, either a certifimust be produced; or there must be a ration that the vehicle is less than three
• old; or the owner must declare that, J se of the use to which his vehicle is to
be put, a certificate is not required.
Also laid before Parliament were the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Exemption) Regulations 1969 which consolidate, with amendments, the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Exemption) Regulations 1961 and the amending regulations made since then.
Principal changes in these regulations which come into operation on May 1, are that certain vehicles licensed to ply for hire in Leicester, Liverpool and Stockport, previously exempted from the requirement to hold test certificates (because they were annually examined by the local police) are no longer exempt. Certain imported vehicles which will now need test certificates are exempted from the need to hold a certificate while being driven from their place of arrival in Great Britain to the residence of the driver or owner. Also certain vehicles on test when being repaired by a motor trader are exempted from the necessity for a test certificate.
Copies of the Order and of the Regulations (Sls 1969, Nos. 434(C.11), 418 and 419 respectively) are available from HMSO, prices 4d, 9d and is.