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Vehicle manufacturing and modification

The law on converting or making modifications to vehicles, vehicle manufacturing classification.

Services

  • Trade licence plates - who can use them, when they can be used and how to get a trade licence

  • To drive a road legal quad bike you must have it approved, registered, taxed and given an MOT if needed

  • Book a test for your lorry or trailer, apply for replacement certificates, a keeper's certificate or permission to supply a large goods trailer

  • Apply for an Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test for cars, goods vehicles, buses and coaches, and trailers on the manage vehicle testing service

  • Type approval, individual (IVA), motorcycle single vehicle approval, voluntary approval, certificate of initial fitness, accessibility approval, fees, forms, replacement certificates

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