New plate and test regs
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• Proposals have been issued by the Department of the Environment which will result in new plating and testing regulations The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1971—coming into operation on April 1. Essentially, the 1968 Regulations and the six subsequent amendments have been consolidated, but there are some small drafting changes and a few minor amendments.
One of the main alterations concerns the fee in the case of a cancelled booking for a test. If the vehicle is not going to be presented at the specified time, and the required 14 days notice is given, the test fee will be carried over for another test of the same kind. But in the event of no other test being required for "that vehicle" the fee can be refunded less 75p (15s) to cover administration costs.
The regulations prescribing dates for vehicle tests have been reworded and "simplified", all vehicles have to be put through a periodical test on the 'anniversary of the first test certificate issued. And whereas a vehicle now submitted for a periodical test after its "due date" is given a certificate valid only for the period up to the next "due date-, in future where the vehicle is submitted more than 10 months (but less than I year) after the "due date" the certificate will he valid for the remainder of that year and the whole of the next—for up to 14 months.