
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 26th June 2000.
2 
The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988 shall be further amended as follows.
3 
In regulation 3(1) in the sub-paragraph which begins with the expression “ agricultural motor vehicle,” there shall be inserted after the expression “ engineering plant,” the expression “exhaust system,”.
4 

(1) Regulation 8 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2)—
(a) the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (o) shall be omitted; and
(b) after sub-paragraph (p) there shall be added the following—“; or
(q) the vehicle is a vehicle propelled by a compression ignition engine to which regulation 61(10BA) of the Construction and Use Regulations applies and the exhaust system has been so altered that the examiner is not able, with the facilities and apparatus available to him at the place at which the examination would otherwise be carried out, to determine whether Part II of Schedule 7B to those Regulations applies to the vehicle”.
5 
After regulation 42 there shall be added the following regulation—“
42A 
Any plating certificate, goods vehicle test certificate, notice of the refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate or certificate of temporary exemption which has been issued under the provisions of these Regulations and which bears a facsimile, by whatever process reproduced, of the signature of, as the case may be, the relevant goods vehicle examiner, authorised or appointed person or appeal officer, shall be deemed to have been duly signed.”
6 

(1) In regulation 12, in paragraph (3), for the Table there shall be substituted the following Table—“

Description of vehicle Fee (£)
Motor vehicle with 2 axles 37
Motor vehicle with 3 axles 38.50
Motor vehicle with 4 or more axles 40.50
Trailer with 1 axle 19
Trailer with 2 axles 20
Trailer with 3 or more axles 21”
(2) In the regulations specified in column (1) of the following Table for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).

(1) (2) (3)
Regulation Existing amount (£) Substituted amount (£)
12(4) 19.50 21
 12.30 13
12(4A) 6.25 7
 3.20 3.50
16(1) 17.60 19
 8.80 10
16(3) 17.60 19
 8.80 10
16(4) 9.80 10
 6.10 6.50
16(4A) 3.50 4
 1.60 2
16(5) 19.50 21
 12.30 13
16(5A) 6.25 7
 3.20 3.50
34(1) 13.50 14
34(2A) 3.50 4
 1.60 2
37B(2) 13.50 14
41(1) 9.50 10
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
25th May 2000