New GV9 procedure
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• January 3 is the date being forecast for the introduction of a new prohibition notice scheme — a revised system of immediate and delayed GV9s. Enabling powers for the change were given in Sections 16 and 17 of the Road Safety Act 1967, and draft regulations are expected later this year.
Although final details have yet to be announced, the new system was outlined in CM on February 26 this year. The GV9 will become an absolute prohibition against a loaded or empty vehicle being moved on a road; there will be a GV9A enabling an examiner to vary the notice so that, for example, when vital defects have been remedied the vehicle can be moved elsewhere for attention to minor faults; and a GV9B will permit a prohibited vehicle to be moved to a stated place of repair under a number of specified conditions.
Minor defects will no longer automatically attract a delayed GV9, but instead a defect notice requiring the owner to make early rectification.