MOT Exemption (1 Viewer)

[jdk62]

I am in the process of paying my road fund licence for our Moho - a Burstner A Class on a 2019 plate. It is rated as a Private HGV (4250Kg).

Going online to pay via the Gov.UK website, it has come up with the following:-

“The records show the vehicle as being test certificate exempt”
You are required to declare that the vehicle being taxed is exempt from the provision of section 53(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 or is not a vehicle to which the Goods Vehicle (Plating and Testing) regulations (1988) apply
Please select the appropriate declaration:

• I declare this is correct
• I declare this incorrect “

I never had this when I taxes the vehicle last year and I got an MOT certificate…

Anybody seen this before and can explain why my Moho could be considered for exemption?

 

[jdk62]

Below is an extract from the Road Traffic Act Section 53(2):-

"Categories of vehicles that are exempt: Find out about DVLA’s online services Go to: www.gov.uk/browse/driving 1. Dual purpose vehicles not constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated vehicle. 2. Road rollers. 3. Mobile machinery which is not suitable for carrying passengers or for transporting goods. Machinery mounted on a motor vehicle chassis is not considered mobile machinery. 4. Vehicles designed and used solely for fire fighting or fire salvage purposes. 5. Works trucks, straddle carriers used solely as works trucks, and works trailers. 6. (GB only) Goods vehicle powered by electricity, first registered before 1 March 2015. 7. Vehicles used solely for one or both of the following purposes: a. Clearing frost, ice or snow from roads by means of a snow plough or smaller contrivance, whether forming part of the vehicle or not, and b. Spreading material on roads to deal with frost, ice or snow. 8. Lifeboat haulage. 9. (GB only) Vehicles constructed or adapted for, and used primarily for the purpose of carrying equipment permanently fixed to the vehicle which equipment is used for medical, dental, veterinary, health, educational, display, clerical or experimental laboratory purposes, such use: a. Not directly involving the sale, hire or loan of goods from the vehicle, and b. Not directly or indirectly involving drain cleaning or sewerage or refuse collection. 10. A motor vehicle at a time when it is being used on a public road during any calendar week if: a. It is being used only in passing from land in the occupation of the person, keeping the vehicle to other land in his occupation, and b. It has not been used on public roads for distances exceeding an aggregate of six miles in that calendar week and to a trailer drawn by a motor vehicle that is being used on a public road in such circumstances. For the purposes of this paragraph ‘public road’ means a road which is repairable at the public expense. 11. Category T tractors, except those that are – (a) capable by their design and construction of exceeding 40 kilometres per hour, (b) used for the haulage of a load or burden more than 15 miles from their operating base, and (c) where the haulage of the load or burden is not in relation to an agriculture, horticulture or forestry operation. 12. Agricultural motor vehicles (not being category T tractors) and agricultural trailed appliances. 13. Agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliance conveyors drawn on roads only by an agricultural motor vehicle. 14. Converter dollies used solely for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, or for any one or two of these purposes. 15. Public service vehicles. 16. Licensed taxis. 17. Vehicles used solely for the purpose of funerals. 18. Goods vehicles to which any of the prescribed construction and use requirements do not apply by virtue of either GB or NI Construction and Use Regulations namely: a. Item 1 (which relates to vehicles proceeding to a port for export). b. item 4 (which relates to vehicles in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters). 19. Vehicles equipped with a new or improved equipment or types of equipment used, solely by a manufacturer of vehicles or their equipment or by an importer of vehicles, for or in connection with the test or trial of any such equipment. 20. Motor vehicles brought into United Kingdom and displaying a registration mark mentioned in the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Regulations, a period of 12 months not having elapsed since the vehicle in question was last brought into the United Kingdom. 21. Motor vehicles in respect of which a test certificate issued in accordance with Article 34 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (a) is in force or which are for the time being licensed under the Vehicles Excise and Registration Act 1994. 22. Vehicles used exclusively on certain islands that do not have a bridge, tunnel, ford or other suitable way for motor vehicles to be conveniently driven to a road in any other part of the UK. This exemption does not apply to the Isle of Wight, the islands of Bute, Lewis, Mainland (Orkney), Mainland (Shetland) and Skye. 23. Trailers brought into the United Kingdom and having a base or centre in a country outside the United Kingdom from which the use of the vehicle on a journey is normally commenced, a period of 12 months not having elapsed since the vehicle in question was last brought into the United Kingdom. 24. Track-laying vehicles. 25. Industrial tractors (NI). 26. Steam propelled vehicles. 27. Motor vehicles first used before 1 January 1960, used unladen and not drawing a laden trailer, and trailers manufactured before 1 January 1960 and used unladen and which have not undergone substantial changes in the technical characteristics of their main components. For the purposes of this paragraph any determination as to when a motor vehicle is first used shall be made as provided in GB and NI Construction and Use Regulations. 28. Motor vehicles constructed, and not merely adapted, for the purpose of street cleansing, or the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies and which are either: a. Three wheeled vehicles, or b. Vehicles which: (i) are incapable by reason of their construction of exceeding a speed of 20 miles per hour on the level under their own power, or (ii) have an inside track width of not more than 1100 millimeters. 29. Vehicles designed and used for the purposes of servicing or controlling or loading or unloading aircraft while so used a. On an aerodrome as defined in the Civil Aviation Act for GB and defined in the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order. b. On roads outside such an aerodrome/airport if, except when proceeding directly from one part of such aerodrome/airport to another part thereof the vehicles are unladen and are not drawing a laden trailer. 30. Vehicles designed for use, and used on an aerodrome/airport mentioned in paragraph 35, solely for the purpose of road cleansing, the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies and cesspools. 31. Vehicles provided for police purposes. 32. Play buses. 33. Living vans the design gross weight of which does not exceed 3500kg. 34. Showman’s vehicles and showman’s goods vehicles (as defined in section 62(1) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1)) and only operating in United Kingdom. 35. Vehicles with a maximum design speed of less than 15.5 miles per hour. 36. Vehicles authorised to be used on the road by a Special Types General Order or a Vehicle Special Order, unless the order specifies otherwise."

I don't fall into any of those... so am intrigued as to why it has come up this year... I will not be declaring Self Exemption.

 

[jdk62]

Having clicked the "Not Declaring Self Exemption" it wont let me tax it online... I have to go to the Post Office with my MOT certifcate...

Never had this last year..

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[jezport]

I think it may mean the Goods vehicle plating certificate.
Plating Certificate

 

[MisterB]

are you entering the reg number correctly? i had an issue with the Dart tag a few years ago, registered my vehicle and paid up front, then i got a couple of penalty notices .... turned out i had entered a zero as 'o' instead of a '0' - they dismissed the penalty notices immediately with no issues thankfully

 

[Emmit]

32. Play bus

That's it. Ours is a Play Bus.!!!

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[jdk62]

are you entering the reg number correctly? i had an issue with the Dart tag a few years ago, registered my vehicle and paid up front, then i got a couple of penalty notices .... turned out i had entered a zero as 'o' instead of a '0' - they dismissed the penalty notices immediately with no issues thankfully

Correct registration number is shown on the Gov website and also links to the renewal notice Tax reference number

 

[Emmit]

'Works Trucks'

How many on here remember those words from Training College days and 'Definitions'
Works trucks were exempt from just about everything.