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Q I have been offered a second-hand • C commercial vehicle
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which is for sale and I propose to buy it on the understanding that it will pass its annual test which is due shortly. The snag is that its road fund licence has expired and I do not wish to license it only to find that it has NOW defect which I have not detected and therefore it fails to pass the test. Is there any way round this dilemma?
A A mechanically propelled vehicle is exempt from duty in connection with vehicle testing under Section 5 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971.
This states that a vehicle shall not be charged with duty under this Act by reason of its use on a public road:—
(a) solely for the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement for a specified time on a specified date for, or bringing it away from, a compulsory test; or (b) in the course of a compulsory test, solely for the purpose of taking it to, or bringing it away from, any place where a part of the test is to be or, as the case may be, has been carried out, or of carrying out any part of the test, the person so using it being an authorized person; or (c) where the relevant certificate is refused on a compulsory test, solely for the purpose of delivering it by previous arrangement for a specified time on a specified date at a place where work is to be done on it to remedy the defects on the ground of which the certificate was refused, or bringing it away from a place where work has been done on it to remedy such defects.