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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Testing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st May 2008.
(2) In these Regulations the “principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicle Testing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.
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For regulation 14 of the principal Regulations substitute—“
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(A test certificate issued under regulation 12 or 13 shall be in the form specified in Schedule 3A and shall be signed by a vehicle examiner.) 
(2) A notice of refusal of a test certificate issued under regulation 12 or 13 shall contain—
(a) the date on which it was issued;
(b) details of the vehicle testing centre at which it was issued; and
(c) the registration mark (if any) exhibited on the vehicle or, if no such mark is exhibited, the chassis or serial number marked on the vehicle.”.
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After regulation 14 of the principal Regulations insert the following regulation—“
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(1) Where a vehicle test certificate is issued under regulation 12 or 13, or a duplicate of an original certificate is issued under regulation 18, in each case Part 2 of that certificate or that duplicate (in this regulation called “Part 2 of the certificate or duplicate”) shall be attached to the vehicle in a holder sufficient to protect it from the weather to which it would otherwise be exposed and shall be carried on the vehicle at all times when the vehicle is on a road or other public place and shall be displayed as specified in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) Part 2 of the certificate or duplicate shall be displayed on the vehicle—
(a) in the case of a light motor bicycle or motor bicycle, other than in a case specified in sub-paragraph (b) or (c), on the near side of the vehicle;
(b) in the case of a light motor bicycle or motor bicycle drawing a side-car or to which a side-car is attached, on the near side of the handlebars of the bicycle or on the near side of the side-car;
(c) in the case of a vehicle fitted with a glass windscreen in front of the driver extending across the vehicle to its near side, on or adjacent to the near side of the windscreen;
(d) in the case of any other vehicle —
(i) if the vehicle is fitted with a driver’s cab containing a near side window, on that window; or
(ii) on the near side of the vehicle in front of the driver’s seat and not less than 760 mm and not more than 1.8 metres above the surface of the road.
(3) In the case of each vehicle referred to in paragraph (2), Part 2 of the certificate or duplicate shall be so displayed that all the particulars are clearly visible in daylight from the near side of the road.”.
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After Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations insert the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 11th March 2008.
Stanley Duncan
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment

SCHEDULE
Regulation 4
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SCHEDULE 3A
Regulation 14
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