Guidance and regulation

How to create a Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) email alerts account and update your subscription preferences.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 5 March 2018

How to buy MOT slots so your business can record MOT test results, including managing your account and getting refunds.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 1 February 2024

Samples of MOT test failure notices that can be given to you when your vehicle fails the test.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 22 October 2021

Changes to the MOT inspection manual and testing guide from 6 February 2023.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 23 January 2023

Check the list of topics that MOT testers need to have MOT training records for from April 2019 to March 2024.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 1 April 2024

Vehicle tax and registration rules for people with a Ukrainian vehicle who have been issued a visa on the Family, Sponsor or Extension Ukraine visa schemes.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 18 July 2023

Changes to annual training hours and updates to the MOT testing guide.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 1 April 2023

Get an MOT centre authorisation certificate (VT9) for your MOT centre's noticeboard if you've lost or damaged the original.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 16 October 2023

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.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 7 January 2016

Examples of the types of questions you'll be asked when you take the MOT tester annual assessment.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 8 February 2023

How to understand your brake test report including what is checked during the test, what will fail, and how to identify problems that might need repairs.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 10 February 2022

Changes to the MOT inspection manual and testing guide

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 26 August 2021

MOT centres can display this poster about the MOT diesel smoke test if they want to.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 3 February 2017

From 5 September 2022, you can fill in an online form to book an MOT demonstration test.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 25 August 2022

How to provide MOT tester and manager qualification courses, and MOT tester annual training courses – including the topics the training must cover.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 1 April 2024

The main things that will be checked when you take your motorcycle for an MOT test.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 21 May 2015

What information MOT testers and managers should regularly check to make sure there are no problems with test quality.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 10 October 2018

How to prepare your heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or public service vehicle (PSV) for the headlamp aim testing part of the annual test (MOT).

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 15 July 2013

What MOT testers need to know about how hybrid, electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles work, and what to do when inspecting these vehicles.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 1 May 2021

Examples of how tyre defects and damage on heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), buses and trailers will be dealt with at roadside inspections and MOTs (annual tests).

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 9 December 2020