MOT exemption club tips
What we know; what you need to know; what we are yet to know
The DFT still hasn’t released detailed advice on how to become MOT exempt after regulations take effect on May 20, 2018. With only a few weeks until that date there will be many clubs unable to advise all their members. In the absence of the DFT transitional advice, it is recommended that any MOT expiring prior to the next VED date is renewed otherwise the vehicle could be flagged up on any ANPR check. This advice would be whether the MOT expires before or after May 20, 2018. Here is what we know though.
The keeper of a vehicle that reaches the 40th anniversary of manufacture (if that is known) or date of first registration will have the right to claim exemption from an annual Statutory Vehicle Test (MOT) subject to meeting certain conditions (see DFT site).
These regulations now take into their embrace the existing pre-1960 MOT exempt vehicles and they are subject to the same specific conditions.
Each year, at the time of renewing VED, the keeper will need to make a voluntary self-reporting declaration that their 40+ year vehicle is a Vehicle of Historic Interest (VHI); this declaration is purely to confirm the right to MOT exemption and does NOT have any effect on the Historic VED status.
A keeper is still able to submit their vehicle for a voluntary MOT should they so wish BUT if it should fail they cannot use it – even though it is eligible for exemption
– unless it is resubmitted and passes.
A ‘modified’ vehicle cannot claim exempt status until 30 years have passed from carrying out the relevant modification(s) and this is a rolling date for those modified prior to May 20, 2018.