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How to display number or licence plates, get plates made up, replace lost, damaged or stolen plates, and the national letters, flags and symbols you can display.
Tax your vehicle up to 2 months in advance if it's due to run out while you're away from home
Explanations of the different terms you might see on your driving licence
What to do if your vehicle, vehicle part or accessory is recalled, has a registered fault and how to report serious safety defect you find
Apply to get replacement heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or trailer plating certificates or ministry plates if the originals have been lost or damaged.
Find a course so you can qualify as either an MOT tester or an MOT manager
Rules for tinted vehicle windows and what could happen if you break the rules
Find a test centre and book an MOT (annual test) for a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), public service vehicle (PSV) or trailer in England, Scotland and Wales
Change your vehicle's tax class using a V70 form.
Book a test for your lorry or trailer, apply for replacement certificates, a keeper's certificate or permission to supply a large goods trailer
Report you’ve changed a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or trailer chassis, weight, tyres or brakes (a ‘notifiable alteration’) or change the weight you can carry.
You should use form V55/4 to register a new vehicle.
To drive a road legal quad bike you must have it approved, registered, taxed and given an MOT if needed
Apply to set up or change an MOT test station, including becoming an authorised examiner (the person or business that runs it).
How to complete your training and take your assessment: how many training hours you need to do, booking your assessment, recording the result.
Apply for an Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test for cars, goods vehicles, buses and coaches, and trailers on the manage vehicle testing service
Becoming an MOT tester - eligibility, qualifications, training courses, annual training and assessment
Vehicles which must have the annual test - buses, coaches, lorries and trailers, booking and fees.
Vehicle registration schemes for the motor trade - non-secure, secure and Register a Vehicle (RaV) service - how they work, who can use them and how to apply
Type approval, individual (IVA), motorcycle single vehicle approval, voluntary approval, certificate of initial fitness, accessibility approval, fees, forms, replacement certificates
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