47 Obligatory test certificates
Road Traffic Act 1988 (1988 c 52) | Legislation

47  Obligatory test certificates

(1)     A person who uses on a road at any time, or causes or permits to be so used, a motor vehicle to which this section applies, and as respects which no test certificate has been issued within the appropriate period before that time, is guilty of an offence.

In this section and section 48 of this Act, the “appropriate period” means a period of twelve months or such shorter period as may be prescribed.

(2)     Subject to subsections (3) and (5) below, the motor vehicles to which this section applies at any time are—

(a)     those first registered [under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 or any corresponding earlier legislation], not less than three years before that time, and

(b)     those which, having a date of manufacture not less than three years

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