Vehicles must be taxed for test
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• Goods vehicles must be taxed before they are submitted for Ministry of Transport testing, the Freight Transport Association reminds operators. The exemption from the need to pay excise duty on vehicles which are travelling to and from a test station as provided in Section 27 of the Road Safety Act, 1967, is not yet in operation and it cannot be brought into effect until regulations specified in Section 1419) of the Act become effective. in other words, the exemption from duty only applies once the submission of a current test certificate becomes pre-requisite to the issue of an excise licence. Although the Association has been pressing the Ministry to link the submission of a test certificate with the excise licence renewal procedures it now appears that there is little chance of this being done in the foreseeable future.
The Association also paints out that in the circumstances the advice contained in paragraph 20(0 ofthe Ministry's Guide to Plating and Testing — VTG 20—is inaccurate.