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The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will be closed at times during Christmas 2023 and New Year 2024.
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Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you make or import a very small number of light goods vehicles with a gross vehicle weight up to 3,500kg.
Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single car or a very small number of cars.
Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single lorry or a very small number of lorries or goods vehicles.
Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single trailer, or a very small number of trailers.
Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single bus or coach, or a very small number of buses or coaches.
Check the list of topics that MOT testers need to have MOT training records for from April 2019 to March 2024.
Guidance on how to become an MOT tester and stay qualified, rules and processes for MOT tests, and recording MOT test results.
How to provide MOT tester and manager qualification courses, and MOT tester annual training courses - including the topics the training must cover.
Find a test centre where you can get an Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA), Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) or Certificate of Initial Fitness (COIF) test.
Manage your official register of driving instructor training (ORDIT) details if you train instructors, and renew your certificate (badge) every 4 years.
Train people to become driving instructors by joining the official register of driving instructor training (ORDIT) - including the assessments you have to pass.
Documents relating to workforce management information summary data for Department for Transport.
Statistical data sets about MOT testing including results by vehicle type, failures by type of defect, and MOT test stations and testers.
Statistical data sets about vehicle tests, including annual tests for lorries, buses and trailers, top failure reasons, and test sites.
DVSA’s Vehicle Market Surveillance Unit makes sure vehicles, vehicle parts and vehicle accessories sold in the UK are safe for people to buy.
A list of vehicle operators who have been accredited to join the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme.
Findings from the vehicle emissions testing done during 2023 to check vehicles conformed to European emission standards.
Findings from vehicle and component testing done during 2023 to check new products on the UK market meet legal obligations.
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