We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Find out if you can report an MOT tester or centre for fraud, how to report them (including without giving your name), and what will happen next.
Guidance on how to run an MOT centre, how to carry out MOT tests, and special notices about changes to the MOT scheme.
How to complete your training and take your assessment: how many training hours you need to do, booking your assessment, recording the result.
Notifying DVSA of any convictions for individuals involved in the MOT scheme, how DVSA defines convictions and repute, what happens when DVSA are notified about convictions, what happens if you fail to notify DVSA of any convictions.
Vehicle emissions testing - including the MOT test, roadside checks and Air Quality Management Areas
Get an MOT centre authorisation certificate (VT9) for your MOT centre's noticeboard if you've lost or damaged the original.
Find out the MOT test status of a vehicle - check the date of the MOT test and the expiry date of an MOT test pass.
Sign up to get free reminders by text message or email a month before your MOT is due
Vehicles which must have the annual test - buses, coaches, lorries and trailers, booking and fees.
How to record MOT test results when the MOT testing service isn't working, and where to get the contingency codes and certificates you need.
View and stop MOT reminders by text message or email.
How to become a transport manager, get the Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) and get added to a vehicle operator's licence.
How to manage an MOT centre for HGVs, trailers, buses and coaches, including how to prepare your centre for tests, the booking process and health and safety requirements.
Contact the police to report a vehicle with no MOT - you need the vehicle's number plate, make, model and colour.
Advice and information for MOT garages and testers.
What happens when shortcomings are found in MOT testing or operations, why disciplinary action may be taken against authorised examiners and testers, disciplinary points and how they're evaluated, when formal disciplinary action will be taken, making an appeal against cessation...
Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed, download MOT test certificate
Equipment approved for MOT testing, including tyre tread-depth gauges, roller brake testers, headlamp aim testers, diesel smoke meters and decelerometers.
Check the list of topics that MOT testers need to have MOT training records for from April 2019 to March 2024.
How the MOT scheme is administered and the rules for authorised examiners, testers and testing different types of vehicles.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.